[DotGNU]UnManaged Pointers stuff (was: Weekend Warriors)

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, Jonathan P Springer wrote:
> See attached patch.  It fixes some problems in my last patch and adds
> binary equality and inequality operators for unmanaged pointers.
> IntPtr.cs compiles with it; whether it works remains to be seen.  I
> desk-checked the IL output from the compiler, but haven't tried running
> it through the engine at full bore yet.

In CVS .

Cannot run it in the engine , as the engine seems to complain about
verfication , eventhough it has the UnverfiableCode Attribute set ..

Anyway the generated code seems to ok and straight forward ... 

> + 2001-10-14  Jonathan Springer <address@hidden>

hmm... I wish *I* could..... (turn back time !)

> + static ILBuiltinType const ILUnmanagedPtr =
> +     {ILType_Invalid,  /*  This is a reference, really  */
> +      ILMachineType_UnmanagedPtr, 1};
> + 

Is it really ILType_Invalid ? .. But it works :-)

But I need a test case for this ...

ildasm of pnet/samples/mscorlib.dll used a conv.u before stfld of void * ,
cscc gives a conv.i , butI think that is a non-issue ? .. (the type is 
immaterial right ?)

Gopal
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