Could you try to write a simple repro in a .rb file that demonstrates the issue?
Tomas From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Orion Edwards Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:42 PM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: [Ironruby-core] What appears to be a really sneaky bug related to loading assemblies (System::Action is temporarily nil) Intro: Using IronRuby 1.0 rc2; .NET 3.5SP1 on windows XP sp3 I have some code which is using DynamicMethod / GetILGenerator to create statically typed methods at runtime, so I can call IUnknown-based COM objects from IronRuby. Here is a snippet # ... piles of code which figures out what the method signature should be and generates it ... func_type_params = [System::Object] + someotherstuff # generate a .NET delegate to wrap the new DynamicMethod puts "DEBUG: Action= #{System::Action.inspect}" puts "DEBUG: Params= #{func_type_params.inspect}" puts "DEBUG: F= #{System::Action.of(*func_type_params)}" del_type = System::Action.of(*func_type_params).to_clr_type This has been working reliably for some time, and still works with most input. However, we've recently seen random failures. Here's some of the output from those Debug lines: # successful DEBUG: Action= #<TypeGroup: System::Action, System::Action[T], System::Action[T1, T2], System::Action[T1, T2, T3], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4]> DEBUG: Params= [Object, Object, Object] DEBUG: F= System::Action[Object, Object, Object] # and then the next one fails DEBUG: Action= nil DEBUG: Params= [Object, Fixnum, Interop::FieldID[], System::Object[]] NoMethodError: undefined method `of' for NilClass As far as that tells me, System::Action has somehow been set to nil. Note: The point at which System::Action gets nil'ed out is NOT always the same point. If I run the code under iirb (copy/pasting my original script in), and then after the exception inspect System::Action, it reports this: => #<TypeGroup: System::Action, System::Action[T], System::Action[T1, T2], System::Action[T1, T2, T3], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, T13], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, T13, T14], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, T13, T14, T15], System::Action[T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, T13, T14, T15, T16]> As you can see, System::Action is no longer nil, but has now been given a bunch more overloads. These overloads come from System.CoreEx (part of the .NET reactive framework). Putting require 'System.CoreEx' at the top of my script to pre-load it makes this error go away. >From what I can tell, something causes the CLR to on-demand load >System.CoreEx.dll. This in turn adds more overloads to System::Action. IronRuby appears to temporarily nil it out while loading, thus causing the crash. Am I on the right track? As mentioned I think I can work around it by preloading all the dll's I know I'm going to need, but this doesn't seem to be a reliable long-term solution. Cheers, Orion
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