Bug report

We have a common pattern for calls. The stack looks like this: func self_or_null args[oparg] and if self_or_null is not NULL we merge it into the args array. This is error prone however as the code generator thinks self_or_null is a discrete scalar, not part of an array.
We have specific code to workaround this, but I'm not sure that there are lurking bugs.

We should, instead, define self_or_null as an array of size 1. This tells the code generator that it is an array and must be in memory, not a register.

As well as causing issues now, this is necessary for #120024 and #121459.

Linked PRs

• GH-123996: Explicitly mark 'self_or_null' as an array of size 1 to ensure that it is kept in memory for calls #124003