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# buckets

An array of pointers to Method data structures. This array may contain no more than mask + 1 items. Note that pointers may be NULL, indicating that the cache bucket is unoccupied, and occupied buckets may not be contiguous. This array may grow over time.

## See Also

### Fields

- [mask](objectivec/1808499-mask.md)
- [occupied](objectivec/1808501-occupied.md)