[Mono-dev] Compiling System.Web with CSC

[Ben Maurer]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:34 +0200, Eyal Alaluf wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> We prefer the solution where mcs is generating pdb files. This solution is well aligned
> with our strategy for the long term. In case the mcs/pdb project is not so simple and
> easy to implement soon, we need to examine the shorter term solutions.
> 
> Checking the approach of using .Net 2.0 compiler, I took a less hacky approach where
> I analyzed the assembly created by .Net 2.0 compiler (using ildasm) and added to our
> binary compiler the few new .Net 2.0 opcodes that were used. I will still need to see
> how to read the PDB files of MS .Net 2.0, but this should be feasible.

How are you guys handling generics in Array? In 2.0, array has methods
like:

public static int IndexOf<T> (T [] array, T value)

Method overloading will redirect calls that before were non-generic to
generic calls in 2.0.

-- Ben