[Mono-devel-list] Use of ILDASM

[Eric Durand Tremblay]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:

>Hello,
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>>There are some `Methods for the .NET infrastructure' that are in
>>sys.text.regex. They are 100% undocumented but are used by the compiled
>>assembly. It is critical that we implement these exactly the same as MS,
>>because that will allow pre-compiled regexes to interoperate between the
>>frameworks. It would be great to get some input as to how much they can
>>look to see what these methods do. I know there are some other APIs
>>where we will face similar problems (JScript comes to mind).
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>Well, they can disassemble the output generated by `CompileToAssembly',
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That's exactly what We wanted to know.

>but they should not disassemble the System.dll/mscorlib.dll
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Never intended to do that.

We just want to understand how MS achieve to specialize Regex class ( 
there is only a protected constructor and we can't override the Match 
method )
It's obviously a "factory"  desing pattern but the interface is 
different than our's.

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Eric Durand Tremblay
University Laval