[Mono-bugs] [Bug 80225][Nor] New - AssemblyName.GetPublicKey() should not return null

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Changed by knocte at gmail.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=80225

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+Bug#: 80225
+Product: Mono: Class Libraries
+Version: 1.2
+OS: All
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: Unknown
+Priority: Normal
+Component: CORLIB
+AssignedTo: mono-bugs at ximian.com                            
+ReportedBy: knocte at gmail.com               
+QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: 
+Summary: AssemblyName.GetPublicKey() should not return null
+
+The new beta version of the (OSS) NHibernate project (which now supports
+2.0 stuff like Generics and Nullables) relies on the behaviour of the
+GetPublicKey() method of AssemblyName class about not returning null, but a
+vector of 0 bytes (so as to be able to query the Length property); so it
+generates an NRE when using it with Mono.
+
+In fact, there is a FIXME related to this bug in
+mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/AssemblyName.cs:
+
+public byte[] GetPublicKey()
+{
+	return publicKey;
+	// FIXME: In some cases MS implementation returns
+	// "new byte [0]" instead of null
+}
+
+I'm going to propose a small patch.