[Mono-dev] Full AOT compilation of generics supported?

[Peter Moberg]

Thanks, I will update my local repository and try again. Is there a specific
method that I can put a breakpoint in to see if Mono decides to AOT compile
the generic method or not? ...just would like to verify the behavior...



On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Zoltan Varga <vargaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  full aot + generics is mostly supported, but it is very hard to
> statically determine the
> set of generics methods which need to be AOTed so it might not work in
> all cases. Try
> current SVN HEAD as there were fixes in this area in the past two weeks.
>
>           Zoltan
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:48 PM, mobbe <peter.moberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Running a two-week old SVN HEAD version of Mono and have been using the
> full
> > AOT compilation feature as well as the mono_aot_only mode of running the
> > system so that I can execute managed code on the iPhone. I have been
> > successful in doing so and have been instantiating and executing various
> > managed code methods to verify the functionality.
> >
> > Last night I fully AOT compiled an assembly that has a method with some
> > generics code in it. I basically add a few strings to a List<string>
> > collection. When running this method an assert was triggered and looking
> at
> > the stack trace it seemed to have stopped when it tried to compile a
> > runtime_invoke_void_* method (not sure about the exact name of this
> > method)... which was created as an "extra" method when previously
> compiling
> > the generic code.
> >
> > Now, the assert was triggered because I was running with mono_aot_only =
> > TRUE but the code was trying to invoke a JIT compilation.
> >
> > Does this mean that generics isn't supported right now for full AOT
> > compilation? or does it mean that I haven't initialized the system
> correctly
> > (either at compile time or at runtime)?
> >
> > If it is not supported are there any goals for when this would be
> available?
> >
> > Thanks,
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