py: Slightly simplify compile and emit of star/double-star arguments.

Saves a few bytes of code space and eliminates need for rot_two
bytecode (hence saving RAM and execution time, by a tiny bit).

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/py/emitnative.c b/py/emitnative.c
index af7fbc551..43dbcf06c 100644
--- a/py/emitnative.c
+++ b/py/emitnative.c
@@ -2316,14 +2316,6 @@ STATIC void emit_native_call_function(emit_t *emit, mp_uint_t n_positional, mp_u
     } else {
         assert(vtype_fun == VTYPE_PYOBJ);
         if (star_flags) {
-            if (!(star_flags & MP_EMIT_STAR_FLAG_SINGLE)) {
-                // load dummy entry for non-existent pos_seq
-                emit_native_load_null(emit);
-                emit_native_rot_two(emit);
-            } else if (!(star_flags & MP_EMIT_STAR_FLAG_DOUBLE)) {
-                // load dummy entry for non-existent kw_dict
-                emit_native_load_null(emit);
-            }
             emit_get_stack_pointer_to_reg_for_pop(emit, REG_ARG_3, n_positional + 2 * n_keyword + 3); // pointer to args
             emit_call_with_2_imm_args(emit, MP_F_CALL_METHOD_N_KW_VAR, 0, REG_ARG_1, n_positional | (n_keyword << 8), REG_ARG_2);
             emit_post_push_reg(emit, VTYPE_PYOBJ, REG_RET);
@@ -2340,14 +2332,6 @@ STATIC void emit_native_call_function(emit_t *emit, mp_uint_t n_positional, mp_u
 
 STATIC void emit_native_call_method(emit_t *emit, mp_uint_t n_positional, mp_uint_t n_keyword, mp_uint_t star_flags) {
     if (star_flags) {
-        if (!(star_flags & MP_EMIT_STAR_FLAG_SINGLE)) {
-            // load dummy entry for non-existent pos_seq
-            emit_native_load_null(emit);
-            emit_native_rot_two(emit);
-        } else if (!(star_flags & MP_EMIT_STAR_FLAG_DOUBLE)) {
-            // load dummy entry for non-existent kw_dict
-            emit_native_load_null(emit);
-        }
         emit_get_stack_pointer_to_reg_for_pop(emit, REG_ARG_3, n_positional + 2 * n_keyword + 4); // pointer to args
         emit_call_with_2_imm_args(emit, MP_F_CALL_METHOD_N_KW_VAR, 1, REG_ARG_1, n_positional | (n_keyword << 8), REG_ARG_2);
         emit_post_push_reg(emit, VTYPE_PYOBJ, REG_RET);