[Mono-dev] On the way to bootstrap vbnc on Mono - How to debugthe runtime on cygwin?

[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

These patches are currently "beta", that means that they make vbnc work and 
don't seem to mess things up, but I didn't test them excessively. I just 
posted them because I need some help with the previously described runtime 
problem I was unable to track down or isolate and these pathes are required 
to make vbnc reach the stage that causes the runtime to crash. So they 
currently only should be used in a working copy.

I would like to track down all bugs that are preventing vbnc from 
bootstrapping and then I'll either propose patches or file bug reports.

Kornél

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel at ximian.com>
To: "Kornél Pál" <kornelpal at gmail.com>
Cc: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] On the way to bootstrap vbnc on Mono - How to 
debugthe runtime on cygwin?


> Hello,
>
>> Today I have made a lot of progress in making vbnc bootstrap on Mono.
>
> Thanks for the work in this area, its fantastic!
>
>> I attached a corlib diff file that fixes bug revealed by vbnc. Note that 
>> all
>> implementations and usages of is_subtype_of, type_is_subtype_of and
>> IsSubclassOf should be revised because there seems to be a huge 
>> difference
>> between MS.NET and Mono.
>
> Could you document some of these changes in a ChangeLog?  Am mostly
> concerned about the IsSubtype change.
> It would increase my confidence level if we had some tests to go along
> with it and also to know if these patches on mscorlib still pass a "make
> distcheck"