[Mono-dev] interface vtables and virtual calls

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

mono uses a method called IMT:

http://primates.ximian.com/~massi/blog/archive/2007/May-10.html

          Zoltan

On Jan 16, 2008 9:01 PM,  <robnik at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to learn about the under-the-hood workings of virtual
> calls to interfaces methods in languages like C# and Java.  I'm
> asking on this mailing list because I figure someone here must have
> implemented this.
>
> I understand virtual methods when you have a single inheritance class
> hierarchy.  Each object contains an extra field that effectively
> points to an array of the function pointers (the "vtable").  So the C
> equivalent of a virtual call would be something like:
>
>      obj->type[method_offset](obj, arg, ...)
>
> Can someone give me a similar C equivalent of a virtual call to an
> interface method?  Is there a generally accepted "best" solution,  or
> do different VMs have different techniques?
>
> thanks,
> Rob
>
>
>
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