Re: [Ikvm-developers] Type mapping & interface inheritance question

[David J. <ju...@or...>]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:

>Hi David,
>
>Thanks for the repro.
>
>It's an mcs bug. It doesn't handle interfaces that indirectly extend
>other interfaces. I've attached a repro that doesn't involve ikvm. The
>commented out line in bug.il shows the difference between the mcs
>generated IB interface and the ikvm generated one. mcs lists all
>implemented interfaces explicitly (and depends on this when compiling
>against other code), but ikvm doesn't do this (and this is perfectly
>legal).
>
>  
>
Jeroen,
OK.  I'd figured out that mcs was listing all the interfaces - as I can
work around the problem by explicitly listing the extras in the C# decl.
I had a quick scan of the Ecma335 spec., and it seemed to be pretty
unclear on the issue.  However, I though that the way mcs does it was
a reasonable interpretation of the spec., but I'm no expert (and as I
said its not very clear anyway).
So, if you or someone hasn't already, I'll file an mcs bug report and see
what comes of it.
Thanks,
-David.