[Mono-devel-list] wchar vs char?

[Jackson Harper]

Hello,

	Sorry for the belated reply, I just noticed this message today. wchar
is simply an alias for char in ilasm, from what I can tell. There are no
docs on it besides it showing up in keyword lists. 
	I have fixed this bug in the assembler. Thanks for the report.

Jackson


On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 12:26, Nikolai Zhubr wrote:
> Hi people,
> I'm new to mono, please forgive my stupidity if I ask silly
> questions :)
> I've installed mono runtime 0.31 and am now trying
> .net-targeted GPCP compiler, which is mentioned on mono site
> as one of (apparently) usable with mono.
> After some minimal fighting I was indeed able to make
> GPCP go and produce IL code for "Hello World" example,
> but it then failed to compile further to bytecode:
>           ...........
>           ldstr "Hello CP World"
>           call wchar[] [RTS]CP_rts::strToChO(string)
> syntax error, got token `K_WCHAR', expecting BANG K_INSTANCE
> K_EXPLICIT K_DEFAULT K_VARARG K_UNMANAGED K_VALUE K_NATIVE
> K_VOID K_BOOL K_INT8 K_INT16 K_INT32 K_INT64 K_FLOAT32
> K_FLOAT64 K_UNSIGNED K_METHOD K_CLASS K_TYPEDREF K_CHAR
> K_VALUETYPE K_OBJECT K_STRING
> 
> I have found however that pre-compiled Hello.exe does
> work. So, I've disassembled it and got the following:
> 
>           ...........
> IL_0006:  ldstr "Hello CP World"
> IL_000b:  call char[] class [RTS]'CP_rts'::'strToChO'(string)
> 
> One can notice "call char[]..." instead of "call wchar[]" here.
> Could someone explain me what does it mean, and better yet,
> how to fix (or workaround) this problem? I would have looked
> through appropriate specs myself gladly but I couldn't find
> any relevant docs, so any usefull refs are greatly appreciated.
> I've found that "wchar" keyword is present in ilasm.xml and
> ILTables.cs within mcs-0.31 package, but the readme says one
> should only need mcs package for class development, which is
> not quite what I'm doing. So far at this point I'm stuck.
> 
> Thank you.