[Mono-bugs] [Bug 57186][Nor] New - decimals are serialized wrong in bniray serialization

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Changed by mono-devel01@foobarquarium.de.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57186

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+Bug#: 57186
+Product: Mono: Class Libraries
+Version: unspecified
+OS: All
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: 
+Priority: Normal
+Component: CORLIB
+AssignedTo: mono-bugs@ximian.com                            
+ReportedBy: mono-devel01@foobarquarium.de               
+QAContact: mono-bugs@ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: 
+Summary: decimals are serialized wrong in bniray serialization
+
+Description of Problem:
+Mono writes decimal values as 16 byte binary data for object inlined
+primitive data types. This is not readable by MS.NET as they are writing
+the value as string.
+
+Steps to reproduce the problem:
+1. compile and execute example code on MS.NET and Mono
+
+Actual Results:
+failure of MS.NET to deserialize a Mono file and the other way arround.
+
+Additional Information:
+try the following code:
+
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using System.Runtime.Serialization;
+using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
+
+
+[Serializable]
+class DecTest {
+	public decimal decimalValue = 8;
+	public decimal decimalValu = 123.456;
+	public decimal decimalVale = 9876.54321;
+}
+
+public class Writer {
+	public static void Main(string[] args) {
+		FileStream rfs;
+		BinaryFormatter formatter;
+		DecTest a;
+
+		if(args.Length == 0) {
+			a = new DecTest();
+			rfs = File.Create("Decimal.ser");
+			formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
+			formatter.Serialize(rfs, a);
+			rfs.Close();
+		} else {
+			rfs = File.OpenRead(args[0]);
+			formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
+			a = (DecTest) formatter.Deserialize(rfs);
+			rfs.Close();
+
+			Console.WriteLine(a.ToString());
+		}
+	}
+}