Re: [Pnet-developers] [bug #4535] mscorlib value types being marked as regular classes

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, address@hidden wrote:
> I found this bug because mcs.exe is failing to verify, because of an 
> initobj on System.Char. The IsCPPointer check in the INITOBJ case in 
> verify_obj.c is failing because the ILType_FromValueType on classInfo 
> is returning what appears to be garbage. 

Ok, point #1 -- use cscc to compile MCS

$ make BOOTSTRAP_MCS=cscc 

should do that ... (but remember to make clean before this, and ignore
the jay reduce-reduce error)

point #2 -- ILType_FromValueType on an ILClass* ? ... I think I've 
fixed that issue by replacing it with an ILClassToType, which does
handle primitive conversions (System.Char => char) ...

> The runtime engine, which does load the dependencies,
> will resolve the type, discover that it inherits from the
> System.ValueType class, and then "know" that it is a
> value type.

I have added "ildasm --resolve-all" to solve this :)

There was nothing good on TV ... and I had run into this issue
sometime ago .. also it was a oneliner ..

Gopal
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