On 01/15/03 Serge Lidin wrote:
> One example of using an arbitrary blob is value type initialization. Take a look at
>the following code:
> .class public value sequential MyVT
> {
> .pack 1
> .field public int32 a
> .field public int64 b
> .field public int16 c
> .method public void Init(string Blob,int32 Offset)
> {
> ldarg.0
> ldarg.1
> call instance char[] [mscorlib]System.String::ToCharArray()
> ldc.i4.0
> ldelema [mscorlib]System.Char
> ldarg.2
> add
> sizeof MyVT
> cpblk
> ret
> }
This is also a good way to ensure the program won't work on big-endian
systems and, unless the structure is several hundred bytes big, it's
most certainly slower than doing the initialization with load
constant/store field.
lupus
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