[Mono-dev] PrelinkAll leads to assertion failure

[Martin Däumler]

Hello,

I wanted to use Marshal.PrelinkAll() in order to pre-initialize a
PInvoke. Unfortunately, executing this method leads to an assertion
failure on x86/Linux. The C# code is quite simple:

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
class Test1
{
	[DllImport("libpinvoke")]
	public static extern int pinvoke(int value);

	static void Main (string[] args)
	{
		Marshal.PrelinkAll(typeof(Test1));
		int ret = pinvoke(1);
		Console.WriteLine("return value: " + ret.ToString());
	}
}

.. as well as the library code (pinvoke.c):

int pinvoke( int value ) {
	return value;
}

The full example including Makefile can be downloaded [1].
Surprisingly, the assertion is raised by Mono 2.6.1 and
2.10.7, but not by Mono 2.8.2 (the versions I tested).
Further, the assertion is not raised when the C# code
was AOT-compiled in advance (works with each tested Mono
version).

Is it a bug or a feature?


With kind regards,
Martin Däumler


[1] http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~mdae/PrelinkAllTest.tar