Re: [DotGNU]Bug - null objects and stack traces.

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, Rhys Weatherley wrote:
> It is perfectly legitimate to call a method with a null "this"
> object in CLI.  Object references are checked at the point they
> are first dereferenced.  Dereferences occur when you access a
> field or make a virtual method call (which needs to access the
> vtable in the object).  Because "Push" is not virtual, the first
> time that "s" is dereferenced is within the method body.  MS'es
> CLR does the same thing.

"call" instruction does not throw a NullReferenceException , but
"callvirt" does ... But "why ?" is not something I can answer.

Gopal
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