mono/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection.Emit/ChangeLog

2002-09-11  Miguel de Icaza  <[email protected]>

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (GetTypes): Implement.

Tue Sep 10 12:12:51 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ConstructorBuilder.cs: added a field to hold the handle.

Mon Sep 9 17:31:12 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: prepare for the real CreateType implementation.

Tue Aug 27 16:57:18 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: remove duplicate code and fix
	named field reading in custom attr.

2002-08-24  Gonzalo Paniagua Javier <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: UnspecifiedTypeSize is 0.

Wed Aug 14 17:38:41 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: ReflectedType and CreateType fixes.

Thu Aug 8 10:25:51 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: added API to embed managed resources.

2002-08-03  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs (TypeBuilder.DeclaringType): Implemented.

Thu Jul 25 13:57:46 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: support linking external resources.

2002-07-19  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs (Emit (OpCode, LocalBuilder)): Throw an exception
	when trying to emit a local that was defined in a different ILGenerator.

	* LocalBuilder.cs (LocalBuilder): Added `ILGenetator' argument to
	the constructor.

Tue Jul 16 19:32:08 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: stack size check fix.

Sat Jul 13 17:30:51 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: add also the enum_type for compiling corlib.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: complete IsValueType.

Sat Jul 13 15:08:12 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: better IsValueType.

2002-07-13  Gonzalo Paniagua Javier <[email protected]>

	* CustomAttributeBuilder.cs: removed compile warning.

Fri Jul 12 11:34:58 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: fixup typebuilder tokens as well.

Tue Jul 9 19:03:03 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: special case SerializarionAttribute.
	Tweaks to get correct code in corlib.

2002-07-06  Miguel de Icaza  <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs (ILGenerator.Emit): For doubles and floats, swap
	the bytes on big endian systems. 

2002-07-03  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs (corlib_object_type, corlib_value_type): Moved
	these fields up after the last entry in MonoReflectionAssemblyBuilder
	in reflection.h.

	* TypeBuilder.cs (IsValueTypeImpl): Use the AssemblyBuilder's
	`corlib_value_type' instead of `typeof (System.ValueType)'.
	(DefineNestedType): Use the AssemblyBuilder's `corlib_object_type'
	instead of `typeof (object)'.

2002-07-02  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs (corlib_object_type, corlib_value_type): New
	internal fields.  When compiling corlib, they point to the newly
	created System.Object and System.ValueType types.
	(SetCorlibTypeBuilders): New public function.  This will be
	dynamically called from MCS when compiling corlib.

	* TypeBuilder.cs (DefineInitializedData): Use the AssemblyBuilder's
	`corlib_value_type' as parent type instead of `typeof (System.ValueType)'
	to make it work when compiling corlib.

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (assemblyb): Made this field internal, not private.

Tue Jul 2 18:34:49 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: implemented AssemblyQualifiedName.
	* MethodBuilder.cs, ConstructorBuilder.cs: special case custom attr.

Mon Jul 1 16:17:29 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: implemented AddInterfaceImplementation().

2002-06-28  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* MethodBuilder.cs (GetParameters): Return all parameters, not all
	but the last one.

2002-06-27  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* ConstructorBuilder.cs (GetParameters): Implemented.

Mon Jun 17 14:55:43 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ModuleBuilder.cs, TypeBuilder.cs: fixes for nested types handling.

Fri Jun 14 16:21:54 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* CustomAttributeBuilder.cs: added custom attribute related internal
	helper methods.
	* FieldBuilder.cs, ParameterBuilder.cs: handle MarshalAs attribute.
	* UnmanagedMarshal.cs: implemented.

Mon Jun 10 18:58:18 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* PropertyBuilder.cs: implemented ReflectedType and DeclaringType
	properties.

2002-06-07  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs (TypeBuilder): Added `PackingSize packing_size' and
	`int type_size' fields to the constructor.
	(DefineNestedType): Pass packing_size and type_size to the constructor.

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (DefineType): Pass the packing_size and type_size
	fields to the TypeBuilder's constructor.

2002-06-07  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs (DefineNestedType): There is no overload for this
	method which takes 5 args in the specs, removed it.

Fri Jun 7 17:04:06 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: updates for PE/COFF rewrite.

2002-05-30  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs (methods): Made this internal and don't
	initialize it.  It will be initialized by the ModuleBuilder's
	GetSymbolWriter() method.
	(get_next_table_index): Only store the method in the `methods'
	array if it's not null.

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (GetSymbolWriter): Initialize the AssemblyBuilder's
	`methods' field if necessary and pass it as third argument to the
	symbol writer's constructor.

2002-05-25  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs (TypeToken): Implemented.

2002-05-24  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (symwriter_define_local): New private variable.
	(GetSymbolWriter): Look for a custom version of "DefineLocalVariable"
	and store it in `symwriter_define_local'.
	(SymWriter_DefineLocalVariable): New internal method to call the
	symbol writer's custom DefineLocalVariable() method.  It is safe to
	call this method if there's no symbol writer.

	* LocalBuilder.cs (SetLocalSymInfo): Use the MethodBuilder'snew
	SymWriter_DefineLocalVariable().

	* MethodBuilder.cs (GetParameters): Implemented.

2002-05-22  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (GetSymbolWriter): Pass the this pointer to the
	symbol writer's constructor.

2002-05-22  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs (methods): New field.
	(get_next_table_index): Record all methods and constructors
	(table 0x06) in the `methods' array.  This is read by the
	Mono.CSharp.Debugger.MonoSymbolWriter::get_method interncall to
	get the MethodBuilder / ConstructorBuilder back from the token.

	* *Builder.cs (get_next_table_index): Added `object obj' argument.
	(<constructors>): pass the this pointer to get_next_table_index ().

2002-05-20  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs (DefineField): Call the new `create_internal_class'
	interncall after adding the first field.  This is used when creating
	enum types to set `klass->enum_basetype'.

Thu May 16 16:09:51 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: complete special acse support for CharSet, Size and
	Pack named args in StructLayout attribute.

Tue May 14 17:13:48 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* MethodBuilder.cs: revert change in accessibility of
	GetILGenerator(int).

Tue May 14 13:31:17 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* FieldBuilder.cs, ParameterBuilder.cs: more special-casing of
	attributes.

Fri May 10 20:57:27 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* CustomAttributeBuilder.cs: expose internal data for use in
	reflection.
	* FieldBuilder.cs, TypeBuilder.cs: special case FieldOffset and
	StructLayout attributes.

Fri May 10 16:30:57 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* MethodBuilder.cs, ConstructorBuilder.cs: implemented InitLocals
	property.

2002-04-26  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (DefineDocument): Implemented.

Tue Apr 16 13:02:28 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: pad output file to file alignment.
	* FieldBuilder.cs: ReflectedType.
	* ModuleBuilder.cs: added guid generation and array method creation.
	* MonoArrayMethod.cs: array method support code.
	
Wed Apr 10 12:57:31 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: use a stack to keep track of exception blocks.

Mon Apr  8 06:19:01  2002 Piers Haken <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: added LabelField.label_base to allow for
	arbitrary offsets (for switch statement)

Fri Apr 5 15:41:19 CEST 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: simpler protocol wih the runtime to
	get the assembly data.

Tue Mar 26 20:10:24 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: use FileMode.Create.
	* ILGenerator.cs: optimize localbuilder related opcodes.
	Track parameters to adjust maxstack.
	* LocalBuilder.cS: use unsigned for position.

2002-03-23  Miguel de Icaza  <[email protected]>

	* LocalBuilder.cs: Drop the symbol_writer as LocalBuilder fields.
	Do this lazily in SetLocalSymInfo.
	
2002-03-24  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (GetSymbolWriter): The MonoSymbolWriter's constructor
	now takes a `string assembly_filename' argument, pass it our fully
	qualified assembly name.

2002-03-24  Nick Drochak  <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: Use #if-#endif instead of if(false){} to disable
	code.  This way there is no compiler warning.

	* TypeBuilder.cs: Removed the returns that came after the throws.
	This removes a few more compiler warnings. Also marked with MonoTODO
	all places where we throw NotImplemented exceptions.

2002-03-23  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* SignatureHelper.cs (GetFieldSignatureHelper, GetLocalSignatureHelper):
	Implemented.

	* LocalBuilder.cs (LocalBuilder): This internal constructor now takes
	a ModuleBuilder argument instead of a ISymbolWriter one.
	(SetLocalSymInfo): Create and pass type signature to DefineLocalVariable.

2002-03-23  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs (BeginScope, EndScope): Implemented.

2002-03-20  Martin Baulig  <[email protected]>

	* ModuleBuilder.cs (GetSymbolWriter): New internal function. Dynamically
	loads the default symbol writer, catch all possible exceptions and return
	null on failure.
	(ModuleBuilder): Added `bool emitSymbolInfo' argument to this internal
	constructor; if set, call GetSymbolWriter ().
	(GetSymWriter): Implemented.

	* LocalBuilder.cs (LocalBuilder): Added ISymbolWriter argument to this
	internal method.
	(SetLocalSymInfo): Implemented, call ISymbolWriter.DefineLocalVariable ()
	if the symbol writer is not null.

	* ILGenerator.cs (ILGenerator): Call ModuleBuilder.GetSymWriter () to get
	and store the symbol writer.
	(DeclareLocal): Pass the symbol writer to LocalBuilder's constructor.
	(MarkSequencePoint): Implemented, call ISymbolWriter.DefineSequencePoints ()
	if the symbol writer is not null.

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs (DefineDynamicModule): Pass the `bool emitSymbolInfo'
	to ModuleBuilder's constructor.

Sat Mar 16 19:11:47 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ModuleBuilder.cs: handle modified types correctly.

Thu Mar 7 17:10:42 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: allow saving bigger assemblies.
	* ILGenerator.cs: add fixup table for fields and methods, since
	at the end of the compile they may end up with a different table
	index.
	* ModuleBuilder.cs: add cache for type names to speed up the type
	lookups from the compiler.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: GetInterfaces () returns only interfaces in the
	current type, not in parents (the docs are wrong).

Tue Mar 5 18:09:34 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* EventBuilder.cs: implemented.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: implemented DefineEvent() method and UnderlyingSystemType
	property.

Mon Mar 4 20:34:52 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: make enough room in the byte array for string
	tokens.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: fixed GetInterfaces().

Mon Mar 4 11:30:40 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: implemented GetConstructors(), GetFields(),
	GetMethods(), GetProperties().

Thu Feb 28 19:15:10 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: call into the runtime to init some basic
	assembly stuff. Reserve slot 1 of typedef table for .<Module>.
	* ModuleBuilder.cs: call into the runtime if we need to create a
	modief type, such as arrays, byref etc.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: call into the runtime to create the MonoClass
	representation for the type. Throw exceptions with not implemented
	stuff.

Wed Feb 27 18:48:47 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: fix nested exception blocks.

Wed Feb 20 22:30:49 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: upped compiled assembly size limit.
	Implemented SetCustomAttribute () methods.
	* CustomAttributeBuilder.cs: implemented the needed constructor
	stuff.
	* Cosntructorbuilder.cs, EnumBuilder.cs, FieldBuilder.cs,
	MethodBuilder.cs, ModuleBuilder.cs, ParameterBuilder.cs,
	PropertyBuilder.cs, TypeBuilder.cs: Implemented SetCustomAttribute () methods.

Wed Feb 20 14:54:01 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: add SetCustomAttribute () to keep the compiler
	going.

Fri Feb 15 18:15:04 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: finally block support and fixes.

Thu Feb 14 18:55:52 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* FieldBuilder.cs: Add SetRVAData().
	* ILGenerator.cs: speed up code array growth.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: fix IsValueTypeImpl(). Add class_size member.
	Implement DefineInitializedData().

Tue Jan 22 23:01:11 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* EnumBuilder.cs, TypeBuilder.cs: updates for changes in Type.cs.
	* ModuleBuilder.cs: fix lookup of nested types.

Tue Jan 15 22:46:21 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: implement some of the exception support methods.

Mon Jan 14 17:07:32 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ModulerBuilder.cs: search also for subtypes in GetTypes().
	* TypeBuilder.cs: bugfix in FullName. Implemented DefineNestedType().

Fri Jan 11 19:00:29 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* MethodBuilder.cs, ConstructorBuilder.cs: save parameter info.

Thu Jan 10 21:07:54 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: handle type tokens (used for box opcode).

Wed Jan 9 19:37:55 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: emit float and doubles.
	* ModuleBuilder.cs: off-by-one error fix and GetType()
	implementations.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: AttributesImpl added.
	* UnmanagedMarshal.cs: stubbed out class.

Sat Jan 5 15:59:05 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: fix emission of two-bytes opcodes.
	Missing slot for locals array. Throw exceptions on unimplemented
	methods.
	* OpCode.cs: add a comment: the Value property is useless.
	* OpCodes.cs: fix name of tail opcode (Tail -> Tailcall).

2002-01-05  Ravi Pratap  <[email protected]>

	* ConstructorBuilder.cs : Use the MonoTODO attribute.

	* ILGenerator.cs, Label.cs, MethodBuilder.cs, ModuleBuilder.cs,
	ParameterBuilder.cs, TypeBuilder.cs : Ditto.
	
Thu Jan 3 23:26:15 CET 2002 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ILGenerator.cs: typo fix.

Mon Dec 24 17:21:30 CET 2001 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: added DefineMethodOverride().
	* MethodBuilder.cs: add override_method member and setter.

Mon Nov 19 13:58:01 CET 2001 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: add method to register a string in the "#US"
	stream.
	* EnumBuilder.cs, SignatureHelper.cs: added stubs.
	* ILGenerator.cs: more stuff implemented.
	* LocalBuilder.cs: keep track of local var index.

Thu Nov 15 18:11:23 CET 2001 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ConstructorBuilder.cs: implement the interesting methods.
	* ILGenerator.cs: adapt for use with both a MethodBuilder and a
	ConstructorBuilder.
	* MethodBuilder.cs: add ImplAttributes.
	* ParameterBuilder.cs: adapt for ConstructorBuilder.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: add constructors handling.

Wed Nov 14 17:01:45 CET 2001 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* ConstructorBuilder.cs: added missing stubs and some implementation.
	* CustomAttributeBuilder.cs: added.
	* EventBuilder.cs: added.
	* FieldBuilder.cs: updates.
	* MethodBuilder.cs: stuff to implement P/Invoke methods.
	* ModuleBuilder.cs: added GetArrayMethod() stub.
	* ParameterBuilder.cs, PropertyBuilder.cs: updates.
	* TypeBuilder.cs: updates and stubs.

2001-11-10  Sean MacIsaac  <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs: Added implementation for TypeHandle.

Tue Nov 6 09:13:45 CET 2001 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: define an internal constructor.

2001-10-07  Miguel de Icaza  <[email protected]>

	* AssemblyBuilder.cs: Reformatted.

	Added override keywords to those that needed them.

	Removed methods that we do not override, but just inherit

Tue Sep 25 16:53:08 CEST 2001 Paolo Molaro <[email protected]>

	* TypeBuilder.cs, ConstructorBuilder.cs, ModuleBuilder.cs: added.