Hi,
it is my understanding that to support generics the CLR (at least the IL) had to be extended with new instructions. I have been wandering around the ms site looking for ducumentation without succses, can anyone point me in the right direction?
thanks
Ole
Michael Giagnocavo [MVP] - 16 Feb 2004 15:33 GMT
I think you'll need the Whidbey beta, when released, to get the new Tool
Developer docs. I don't think it was even part of the alpha drop.
-mike
MVP
> Hi,
>
> it is my understanding that to support generics the CLR (at least the IL) had to be extended with new instructions. I have been wandering around the
ms site looking for ducumentation without succses, can anyone point me in
the right direction?
> thanks
> Ole
Chris Taylor - 16 Feb 2004 19:07 GMT
Hi,
I do not know if this will be good enough for your requirements, but you can
also take a look at the Gyro patch for the SSCLI (Rotor), it extends rotor
to support generics. I know the implementation has some limitations compared
to the spec, but it is a good way to get an idea as to what will be going
on.
http://research.microsoft.com/projects/clrgen/
Hope this helps

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> Hi,
>
> it is my understanding that to support generics the CLR (at least the IL) had to be extended with new instructions. I have been wandering around the
ms site looking for ducumentation without succses, can anyone point me in
the right direction?
> thanks
> Ole
Ilya Kavalenka - 17 Feb 2004 14:18 GMT
Hi, Ole.
This article makes some things clear about the templates in CLR (although,
it doesn't reference neither all the IL instructions nor the metadata
tables, modified or introduced for this feature).
http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/papers/generics.pdf
All the best,
Ilya
Kelvin Hoover - 26 Feb 2004 16:55 GMT
The developer tools guide will be included in the upcoming Whidbey beta and
it will be updated with new IL instructions regarding generics.
Thanks,
Kelvin
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