[Mono-bugs] [Bug 76717][Min] Changed - alignmnet of reference fields

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Changed by lupus at ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=76717

--- shadow/76717	2005-11-16 09:20:55.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/76717.tmp.26168	2005-11-21 10:58:35.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
 Bug#: 76717
 Product: Mono: Runtime
 Version: 1.1
 OS: unknown
 OS Details: RHEL4
-Status: RESOLVED   
-Resolution: FIXED
+Status: REOPENED   
+Resolution: 
 Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Minor
-Component: interop
+Component: misc
 AssignedTo: mono-bugs at ximian.com                            
 ReportedBy: billmedland at mercuryspeed.com               
 QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
 TargetMilestone: ---
 URL: 
 Cc: 
-Summary: Marshal.SizeOf asserts on a packed struct
+Summary: alignmnet of reference fields
 
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 Description of Problem:
 Marshal.SizeOf cannot handle packed structures
 
@@ -43,6 +43,19 @@
 Test case for Marshal.SizeOf assertion failure
 
 
 ------- Additional Comments From vargaz at gmail.com  2005-11-16 09:20 -------
 Fixed in SVN.
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From lupus at ximian.com  2005-11-21 10:58 -------
+Reopening the bug.
+The committed fix is wrong: we should never allow reference fields to
+be set at non-pointer aligned offsets. If we do, the GC will not see
+the object, it will reclaim it and everything breaks.
+For the specific case we should either ignore the pack constraint when
+aligning fields with references if it's not big enough (and obey it
+only in the unmanaged layout of the struct, because that one doesn't
+have reference fields), or we should refuse to load the type and
+generate a TypeLoad or similar exception. Do you mind checking what
+the MS runtime does in this case?
+


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