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[DotGNU]New internalcall interface coming


From: Rhys Weatherley
Subject: [DotGNU]New internalcall interface coming
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:29:08 +1000

Hi all,

I'm in the middle of rearranging the way internalcall methods
are integrated into the engine, and will be comitting a bunch
of changes in a few days.

Anyway, the new system will work as follows:

Instead of manually building the "IL_METHOD" tables, and
the class table in "internal.c", the new "ilinternal" program
will be used to scan "mscorlib.dll" and "System.dll" looking
for all internalcall methods.

This program writes out C declarations for all of the functions
that need to be implemented, together with the method tables
that declare everything.

This makes the process a little more automated, and also
will make it easier to catch missing internalcalls: the engine
won't link if a method is missing.

Combined with the upcoming changes to cscc to support
attributes, this should take a lot of the pain out of hooking
new internalcall methods into the engine.

For the time being, it would be a good idea for CVS
committers to keep out of the internalcall parts of the
engine until I can commit all of these changes back.
Other parts of the system should be safe to work on,
and declaring new internalcall's in pnetlib is also OK.

Cheers,

Rhys.




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