Andrew John Hughes wrote: > Ah, so IKVM already has some of this implemented? Great. I guess it > depends on other VM implementors and how much control they want over > this. I think the implementation of the signature parser was a good > idea, and the annotation support should have a similar division.
Yeah. Annotation support in IKVM is an interesting case, because Java annotation are so similar to .NET custom attributes, I convert the annotations into .NET attributes to make it possible to use them in other .NET languages as well. Because of these special requirements I haven't really thought about how more traditional VM would handle them, but I welcome input from other VM implementers and share code where possible. Regards, Jeroen
