See also these articles from John Lam about differences between C# and VB.NET IL generation.
http://www.iunknown.com/Weblog/CodegenerationCvs.VB.NET.html http://www.iunknown.com/Weblog/UpdateonVB.NETcodegenerat.html Basically VB has to allocate another local in case the Function name is assigned to (used as a variable). e.g. Function Add3(i as Integer) as Integer Add3 = i + 3 ' instead of return i + 3 End Function j. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Bingham To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:10 PM Subject: RE: [Mono-list] VB.NET and C# differences in compiling <snip: Stack handling> > About add.ovf, I have to see on C# specifications. I can think that C# is > something different from the CLI and can be implemented also on systems > that > have not add.ovf equivalent (checking overflow cost a lot!). VB.NET runs > only on CLI so add.ovf is always present..... C# has the keywords (and operators) checked and unchecked to control this. (See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csref/html/ vclrfCheckedUncheckedStatements.asp). VB.NET (to the best of my knowledge) does not. Hope that helps. Mark -- Mark Bingham _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
