November 30, 2004 4:45 pm

And those who died tonight shall be reborn tomorrow .....

As some of you may have already noticed, Mono.C5's test suite is now in SVN and GMCS can also compile it :-) Some of the NUnit tests are disabled because they would crash the JIT or cause a hang at runtime, but I think we're already doing pretty good today: about 160 out of 870 tests are currently working.

After so much good news, I started to do some generics-related API cleanups in the runtime. The biggest change is that I renamed to MonoGenericInst structure to MonoGenericClass because that's what it really is. So now we have MonoGenericClass describing a generic class and MonoGenericMethod describing a generic method.

However, before you burst into tears about the dead of MonoGenericInst, don't worry - it will be reborn again tomorrow :-)

Tomorrow, I'll add a new MonoGenericInst which'll just contain the type_argc and type_argv fields and an unique ID. This'll later be used to share code between different instantiations. I'm doing this now because I realized that I need it in order to fix a bug - so we'll see a this optimization earlier than originally expected .....

Posted by martin at November 30, 2004 4:45 pm.