Changes:
0.6.4 (13 March 2004)
Runtime engine:
* Write Reflection.Emit binaries in "wb" mode.
* Set the execute bit on binaries written by Reflection.Emit.
* Fixes to unsafe-mode verification rules regarding pointers.
* Verification fixes for storing managed pointers via "stind.i".
* Modify internalcalls for "WaitAll" and "WaitAny" to work
around "MarshalByRefObject" adding a new field.
* Internalcalls for file lengths and attributes (Russell Stuart).
* Pass pointer parameters to delegates correctly (Gopal V).
C# Compiler:
* Fixes to reference type coercion.
* "params" array matching only on the last parameter (Gopal V).
* Filter out instance members when searching nested parent scopes.
* Assignment of arrays to pointer variables in "fixed" statements.
* Implement pointer comparison, addition, and subtraction.
C Compiler:
* Rewrite the type system to use native layout.
* Thread-specific variables.
* Fix casts from function pointer types to "void *".
* Computed goto support.
* Register parameters of the form "register type".
* Fix semantic analysis for expression statements.
* Add C#-style casts and coercions.
* Make "long double" an alias for "double" because MS runtime engines
don't handle the "native float" IL type correctly.
* Improve the visibility of C definitions to C# applications.
* Add some C# and Managed C++ syntax to aid with interoperation.
* Allow C# strings to be defined with S"foo".
* "using" and "using namespace" to import C# types into C programs.
* Output the parameter types for PInvoke declarations.
* Bug in the declaration of functions returning function pointers.
* Set the default PInvoke calling convention to "cdecl".
* Handle string initializations of the form {"foo"}.
* Convert constants of the form 123L into native ints, not int64.
Linker:
* Improve detection of unresolved references in C applications.
* Use C type names in error messages where appropriate.
* Use "OpenSystem.C.GlobalScopeAttribute" to export C# definitions
into the global C scope.
* Use ordinary names like "libc" for C modules instead of "$Module$".
* Remove C "memory models", which aren't needed any more.
Loader and Metadata:
* Allow custom modifiers within a "byref" type.
* Look for "pinvoke.map" files when resolving PInvoke libraries.
Csant:
* Missing options for mcs compiles (Ilyak Kasnacheev).
Documentation:
* Rewrite the C user's guide and move it into "pnettools.texi".
* Update the C ABI specification to reflect changes to the C compiler.
Platform Support:
* Enable FreeBSD pthreads support (Adam Ballai).
* Use the tm_gmtoff field for timezones (Ole Guldberg Jensen).
* Explicitly invoke the shell when configuring libgc and libffi.
* Work around bugs with read-write locks on systems with NPTL.
* Use $(EXEEXT) on install lines that need it, for mingw32.
* Fixup SOCKETLIBS and suppress libm under mingw32 environments.
Other:
* Check in a copy of gcc's cpp so that we can avoid system cpp bugs.
* Add the "#using#" directive to cpp.
* Update the "pnet.spec.in" file (Russell Stuart).
by moving the inclusion of buildlink3.mk files outside of the protected
region. This bug would be seen by users that have set PREFER_PKGSRC
or PREFER_NATIVE to non-default values.
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES should be ordered so that for any package in the
list, that package doesn't depend on any packages to the left of it
in the list. This ordering property is used to check for builtin
packages in the correct order. The problem was that including a
buildlink3.mk file for <pkg> correctly ensured that <pkg> was removed
from BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and appended to the end. However, since the
inclusion of any other buildlink3.mk files within that buildlink3.mk
was in a region that was protected against multiple inclusion, those
dependencies weren't also moved to the end of BUILDLINK_PACKAGES.
The goal of this project is to build a suite of Free Software tools
to build and execute .NET applications, including a C# compiler,
assembler, disassembler, and runtime engine.
