On 08/19/02 Serge wrote: > It's indeed uncompressed data stream, it's mentioned briefly in Part II, 23.2.2 > "Some compilers store metadata in a #- stream, which holds an uncompressed, or >non-optimized, representation of metadata tables; > this includes extra metadata "pointer" tables." > > Those pointer tables are: > FieldPtr > MethodPtr > ParamPtr > EventPtr > PropertyPtr > TypeTyPar > MethodTyPar > > There are also ENCLog, ENCMap tables, not sure what it is. > The stream is pretty straight-forward to reverse-engineer, > but I don't think it's useful to add support for the stream.
Well, I'm not even considering it until I can create such a stream with a command-line tool. I was wondering if the *Ptr table are something like the token pointers I wanted to use to implement the runtime use of types created with Reflection.Emit, like I proposed a while ago on the list. Anyway, if the #- is just like the #~ stream only with the columns in the tables uncompressed, it will be easy to support it (i.e. can I just ignore the existance of the *Ptr tables? I guess I need to know their format anyway, if their ID is lower than one of the currently used tables IDs, since the metadata tables format was designed without thinking about compatibility with future versions...). Thanks for the info. lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
