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5 I believe that `Value Parameter' might have been introduced
6 after C# 1.0, also notice than in the treatment of Value Parameter
7 the parameters are defined in four categories:
9 Section 9.3 in the latest spec.
18 It would be nice to optimize the case of:
20 Method (new ValueType ())
22 So that no temporary is created, and we only use a newobj call
23 that remains on the stack, as opposed to ldloca, initobj, ldloc
29 ImplicitStandardConversionExists and ImplicitStandardConversion
30 should always be the same, but there are a few diverging lines that
33 if (expr_type == target_type && !(expr is NullLiteral))
38 if (expr_type == target_type)
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43 * The information on the rest of this file is mostly outdated, and its kept here for
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51 * Make yyerror show a nice syntax error, instead of the current mess.
56 Currently when we build a type cache, it contains private members,
57 internal members, and internal protected members; We should trim
58 these out, as it shows up on the profile.
60 We create too many Arraylists; When we know the size, we should create
63 During parsing we use arraylists to accumulate data, like this:
68 : thing { $$ =new ArrayList (); $$.Add ($1); }
69 | thing_list thing { ArrayList a = $1; a.Add ($2); $$ = a; }
71 We probably could start using "Pairs" there:
74 : thing { $$ = new Pair ($1, null); }
75 | thing_list thing { Pair p = $1; $$ = new Pair ($2, $1); }
78 EmitContext.ResolveTypeTree
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81 We should investigate its usage. The problem is that by default
82 this will be set when calling FindType, that triggers a more expensive
85 I believe we should pass the current EmitContext (which has this turned off
86 by default) to ResolveType/REsolveTypeExpr and then have the routines that
87 need ResolveType to pass null as the emit context.
92 DeclareLocal is used in various statements. The audit should be done
95 * Identify all the declare locals.
99 * Find if we can make wrapper functions for all of them.
101 Then we can move DeclareLocal into a helper class.
103 This is required to fix foreach in iterators.
108 Instead of the hack that *knows* about System.Object not having any children classes,
109 we should just make it simple for a probe to know that there is no need for it.
111 Dead Code Elimination bugs:
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114 I should also resolve all the children expressions in Switch, Fixed, Using.
118 Properties and 17.6.3: Finish it.
120 readonly variables and ref/out
125 * Break/Continue statements
127 A finally block should reset the InLoop/LoopBegin/LoopEnd, as
128 they are logically outside the scope of the loop.
130 * Break/continue part 2.
132 They should transfer control to the finally block if inside a try/catch
136 > // CSC sets beforefieldinit
138 > // .cctor will be generated by compiler
139 > public static readonly object O = new System.Object ();
140 > public static void Main () {}
147 * Merge test 89 and test-34
151 The information when registering a method in InternalParameters
152 is duplicated, you can always get the types from the InternalParameters
154 * Emit modreq for volatiles
156 Handle modreq from public apis.
158 * Merge tree.cs, rootcontext.cs
163 * User Defined Conversions is doing way too many calls to do union sets that are not needed
165 * Add test case for destructors
167 * Places that use `Ldelema' are basically places where I will be
168 initializing a value type. I could apply an optimization to
169 disable the implicit local temporary from being created (by using
172 * Dropping TypeContainer as an argument to EmitContext
174 My theory is that I can get rid of the TypeBuilder completely from
175 the EmitContext, and have typecasts where it is used (from
176 DeclSpace to where it matters).
178 The only pending problem is that the code that implements Aliases
179 is on TypeContainer, and probably should go in DeclSpace.
183 Write tests for the various reference conversions. We have
184 test for all the numeric conversions.
186 * Optimizations: variable allocation.
188 When local variables of a type are required, we should request
189 the variable and later release it when we are done, so that
190 the same local variable slot can be reused later on.
192 * Add a cache for the various GetArrayMethod operations.
194 * MakeUnionSet Callers
196 If the types are the same, there is no need to compute the unionset,
197 we can just use the list from one of the types.
199 * Factor the lookup code for class declarations an interfaces
200 (interface.cs:GetInterfaceByName)
205 * Use of lexer.Location in the parser
209 TOKEN nt TERMINAL nt TERMINAL nt3 {
210 $$ = new Blah ($2, $4, $6, lexer.Location);
213 This is bad, because the lexer.Location is for the last item in `nt3'
215 We need to change that to use this pattern:
217 TOKEN { oob_stack.Push (lexer.Location) } nt TERMINAL nt TERMINAL nt3 {
218 $$ = new Blah ($3, $5, $7, (Location) oob_stack.Pop ());
221 Notice how numbering of the arguments changes as the
222 { oob_stack.Push (lexer.Location) } takes a "slot" in the productions.