[Mono-list] Bug found in mcs...

[Maurizio Colucci]

Hello,

this looks like a bug in mcs.

public class C
{

  private class States    {
    public abstract class GenericState         {     }

    public class SearchState :       GenericState         {
      public SearchState() { }
    }
  }
  
  private void  foo ( out States.SearchState[] o)      { //<<<< HERE
    
  }

  public static void Main(){}
 
      
}
	

The output is:



mcs -g  -o test.exe test-mono.cs
test-mono.cs(12) error CS0246: Cannot find type `SearchState[]&'

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: A null value was found 
where an object instance was required
in <0x00050> 00 Mono.CSharp.MemberBase:CheckParameters 
(Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer,System.Type[])
in <0x00052> 00 Mono.CSharp.MethodCore:DoDefineParameters 
(Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer)
in <0x0002f> 00 Mono.CSharp.Method:CheckBase (Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer)
in <0x00042> 00 Mono.CSharp.Method:Define (Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer)
in <0x000df> 00 Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer:DefineMembers 
(System.Collections.ArrayList,System.Reflection.MemberInfo[])
in <0x003e4> 00 Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer:DefineMembers 
(Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer)
in <0x003b4> 00 Mono.CSharp.RootContext:PopulateTypes ()
in <0x0070a> 00 Mono.CSharp.Driver:MainDriver (string[])
in <0x0000f> 00 Mono.CSharp.Driver:Main (string[])


Compilation finished at Tue Apr 29 17:18:54

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It seems that mcs has problems with arrays passed with the "out"
keyword: if the brackets [] are removed, everything works.

It works with Visual Studio.

Maurizio Colucci