On 08/03/05 David Srbecky wrote: > My name is David Srbecky and I am working on SharpDevelop 2.0 debugger. > The debugger is getting nearly finished, but it is still missing one > 'cool' feature - edit and continue. The support for Edit and Continue > (EnC) from the side of Microsoft runtime is good enough, but there is no > support at all from the compiler side - all the functionality is private > and mostly part of VS. This effectively means that to support EnC, I > must write my own compiler. I would never try to that, but fortunately > there is mono to save the day. I would like to use the mono compiler to > produce the necessary deltas, which I must feed to MS runtime. The > problem is the I know neither the internals of mono compiler nor the > internals of System.Reflection.Emit and implementing support of EnC > would be a tedious or impossible task for me.
There is no documentation about what the MS runtime expects in the edit and continue metadata tables. You could get someone living in a free country to reverse engineer the metadata tables and write a spec. Then we could start to see if the spec is easily implementable in mono's reflection.emit code. My guess is that it would be quite complex to implement _and_ make it work with the MS runtime. If people find the edit&continue feature useful, I suggest implementing it in mono for mono (this of course requires people to help the debugger folks first, though). lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list