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Changed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74932 --- shadow/74932 2005-05-13 04:54:17.000000000 -0400 +++ shadow/74932.tmp.18227 2005-05-13 16:44:21.000000000 -0400 @@ -65,6 +65,35 @@ Every time. Additional Information: ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-13 04:54 ------- Let's change the summary to make it make more sense ;-) + +------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-13 16:44 ------- +Here is some more background. + +The type system looks like this: + +class B { /* ... */ } + +class D3 : B { /* ... */ } + +B b2 = new B(); // Via some chain of function calls +try +{ + Console.Out.WriteLine(b2.GetType().Name); + D3 p3 = (D3) b2; + Console.Out.WriteLine(p3.GetType().Name); +} + +Because b2 is of type B, the cast in the assignment to p3 is expected +to fail. It does under .NET, and with Mono on every platfom we've +tried, except that, on Mac OS X, the assignment succeeds without +throwing an InvalidCastException. In other words, the above code +snippet prints + +B +B + +This should be impossible because the second WriteLine should never +be reached. _______________________________________________ mono-bugs maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-bugs
