[Mono-dev] Bug 10784

[Jamie Venning]

Yeah, what I'm chasing are the best ways to cause failures without this
assertion -- that way as I go through and fix things I can be more
confident that things haven't been missed.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Alexander Köplinger <
alexander.koeplinger at xamarin.com> wrote:

> I don't think it's as easy as removing the assert.
>
> For one, the interface ID returned by mono_get_unique_iid() is stored as a
> guint16 (
> https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/36c7332104eb5250a93079ae77c2e0dbf12c6c9a/mono/metadata/class-internals.h#L344)
> which means you only have 0-65,535 values there. I'm not familiar enough
> with the runtime codebase to say which other problems you'll run into if
> you try to fix this.
>
> - Alex
>
> 2016-01-05 8:38 GMT+01:00 Jamie Venning <
> jamie_venning at technologyonecorp.com>:
>
>> Good Morning.
>>
>> Bug 10784 (
>> https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=10784) is a
>> major blocker for me, and a big obstacle for larger applications moving
>> from .NET to Mono. Because I need this fixed, I am prepared to fix it
>> myself.
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone knowledgeable in this area could answer these
>> few, short questions just to confirm a few things.
>>
>> Removing the offending assertion from class.c, and running generated test
>> cases that previously triggered it, I did not notice any incorrect
>> behaviour in terms of reflection, the 'is' operator failing, or the wrong
>> implementation of functions being used. Is there anywhere that I should be
>> looking in particular or any particular type of tests I can use to expose
>> an underlying fault that removing this assertion causes?
>>
>> Is it possible that this assertion is vestigial or unnecessary?
>>
>> --
>>
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