I think that this is an mcs bug. I think I narrowed it down to mcs's mark handling the custom attribute correctly. I filed a bug report for you. http://bugs.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=54679 On Friday 20 February 2004 2:06 pm, Giuseppe Greco wrote: > Hi all, > > since const fields are implicitly static, > the following code fragment should work fine: