Re: [SharpOS Developers] SharpOS

[William L. <xfu...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Matthijs ter Woord <
mat...@gm...> wrote:

> IL has remained unchanged since .NET 2.0. Extension methods are just
> compiler metadata (1 single attribute, together with source compiler
> support), LINQ are just extension methods with source compiler support, .net
> 4.0 dynamic objects is all implemented using .net extension methods, so
> might be something else..
>

This may be true, but technically the AOT (especially in the 0.0.1 release)
probably does not actually handle all normal IL operations. If the new
features have caused older code which worked to expose something using any
of these features, this could be the cause. One example is support for
strings. I don't recall if full string support was present in 0.0.1 or not,
but for a long time we had to specially craft our string constant usage to
use an AOT-provided converter to an IntPtr so that strings could be used
without the runtime being active. We later had much nicer string support but
code like:

string str = "hello world";

would typically cause an error from the AOT similiar to what you got. It
certainly could be something else though. Let us know what you find out :-)

Just sayin'

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