Foundation Setup and Foundation Info in the universe

See the mulle-objc-runtime Wiki about the big bang

MulleObjC provides the main setup routines for Objective-C Foundation setup during the universe big bang. Inside each universe there is a sizeable chunk of memory allocated for Foundation use. It can be retrieved with _mulle_objc_universe_get_foundationdata and it is S_MULLE_OBJC_UNIVERSE_FOUNDATION_SPACE bytes long (currently 1KB).

This space is used to store a struct _mulle_objc_universefoundationinfo that is used to support the following tasks:

• reference root objects such as singletons
• maintain a separate exception vector table that can accept objects as arguments
• UTF8 to string and back conversion vectors used in _mulle_objc_string and _mulle_objc_characters mainly for supporting exceptions and debugging
• set the NSAutoreleasePool class
• maintain some information about threads