Deconstruction into a pointer target ((*p, value) = tuple;) stayed an
explicit Deconstruct call: a store through a pointer (or through a target
whose pointer type got erased in a stack slot) does not infer a
ByReferenceType, so IsAssignment reported an unknown expected type and the
transform's conversion check rejected the assignment. The type of the store
itself is just as precise, so use it as the expected type.
Of the three IsAssignment call sites only the transform's MatchAssignment
consumes the expected type; CheckInvariant and GetAssignmentIndex discard
it, so this widens what the transform accepts without weakening the
invariant check.
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The debug-step node bracket (MarkNodeStart/try/finally/MarkNodeEnd) was copied
into every hand-written WriteTo override and re-emitted by the T4 generator, so
a newly added instruction could silently omit it and lose step highlighting with
no compile error or test failure. Seal WriteTo on ILInstruction to apply the
bracket once and delegate to a new abstract WriteToCore; move every override
(hand-written and generated) to WriteToCore without the wrapper. Rendered output
is unchanged -- the marks are no-ops unless the output tracks nodes.
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The C# debug-steps view highlights and centers the exact AST node a
transform changed; the ILAst view already had the step tree and
replay-at-step but produced no highlight. Bring it to parity.
IL rendering has no token-writer seam like the C# output visitor, so
per-instruction text spans are recorded by bracketing
ILInstruction.WriteTo via a new INodeTrackingOutput. The dominant
inst.ReplaceWith(newInst) transform pattern detaches the instruction
passed to Step, so ILTransformContext gains EndStep to record the
produced instruction; Stepper additionally records the position's
ancestor chain as fallback candidates before the step-limit throw, so
the "show state before" view -- which halts at the selected step --
still resolves to a surviving ancestor (ultimately the ILFunction).
The highlight-range resolver is shared with the C# language.
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Siegfried Pammer
Peter Crabtree
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