[Mono-list] Metadata Validator

[James Perry]

On 23 Aug 2001, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

>
> > I didn't see a metadata validator in the runtime anywhere. Is anyone
> > working on this already? I need a validator for some stuff; if no one's
> > working on one already I'll get this out of the way myself. :)
>
> Someone had expressed an interest in doing so, but I forget who it
> was.
>
> You want to write this using C and the libmetadata library,
> System.Reflection wont show you the kind of things you need to
> validate.
>

That was me, and it was the bytecode verifier I've been looking at.
However, the verifier's not much good if you haven't validated the
metadata before-hand, is it?

 - James