[Mono-dev] gmcs: 'Type.IsGenericInstance' property

[Martin Baulig]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:21 +0530, Raja R Harinath wrote:

> Martin Baulig <martin at ximian.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:04 +0000, george moudry wrote:
> >> Dear Mono-devel,
> >> I would like to compile gmcs with Microsoft's DLLs (mscorlib.dll version 
> >> 2.0).
> >> (Reason: just downloaded Visual Studio Express, and created a tiny project 
> >> for gmcs to try both out)
> >> Compilation fails because gmcs uses a Mono-library-specific property, 
> >> 'Type.IsGenericInstance'.

> Still, if it can trivially be implemented with the .NET 2.0 API, I think
> we should still take it.
> 
> IIUC, 
> 
>   IsGenericInstance == IsGenericType && !IsGenericTypeDefinition
> 
> Martin, is my reasoning correct?  If so, we can introduce a
> TypeManager.IsGenericInstance and replace all uses with that.

Hi,

yes, that's correct.

However, I'm not sure whether making GMCS compilable with csc is such a
good idea since the resulting binary will not run on the MS runtime.

Martin