[Mono-devel-list] NET_2_0 attributes

[Marek Safar]

Hello,

>On 09/14/04 Sebastien Pouliot wrote:
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>>+		[MonoTODO ("A lot of work here")]
>>+		object ReconstructDllImportAttribute ()
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>>This seems to be a *partial* implementation to
>>http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62372
>>and that should be noted in the ChangeLog
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>>The bug entry links to a full list of the pseudo attributes
>>http://blogs.msdn.com/adam_nathan/archive/2003/04/29/56645.aspx
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>>When I looked at this issue, also hoping for a managed-side fix, I was
>>pretty sure that we couldn't get a complete implementation from the managed
>>side (after reading the MSDN blog). At least not without (a) modifying the
>>currently used runtime icalls or (b) adding new icalls in the runtime. I
>>don't think that, both for performance and for understanbility, that we want
>>to split the attribute gathering in both the runtime and the class library.
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>I think we need to implement this stuff in the C part of the runtime.
>The icalls need to be changed, too, to match the MS CLR implementation
>wrt attribute creation. Last time I checked:
>*) IsDefined() didn't cause the attributes to be created
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OK, but that is different story. This is all valid for normal attributes 
not for pseudo.

>*) GetCustomAttributes (type, ...) caused just the attributes matching
>type to be created
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For pseudo attributes this is fulfilled.

>*) the attributes need to be created at each invocation (I think we
>might have fixed this already)
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For parameterless attribute it is useless.

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Marek