Resolving one assembly resolves its whole reference closure, and every
reference in it asked the same framework directories the same questions.
The worst of it was the scan for the closest version folder of a shared
framework: a directory listing plus a recursive file search, repeated per
reference and per runtime pack - 42 scans for two distinct answers when
decompiling ICSharpCode.ILSpyX.dll.
The scan result is only safe to keep for a bounded time: a runtime can be
installed or removed while ILSpy runs, and reloading an assembly list has
to see that. So it is kept for the length of an explicitly opened scope,
which the type system opens around the closure it resolves and closes
again afterwards; outside a scope the file system is read as before. The
scope owns what was read, so two of them on one resolver do not stack -
the first to end takes it, and the other reads the file system again.
BeginSnapshot is on IAssemblyResolver rather than an interface of its
own: it is core functionality of a resolver, and one implementation is
not an abstraction. This breaks the interface for implementors outside
this repository, who opt out by returning null - which is what the three
resolvers here that hold nothing do.
The remaining probes cost nothing to fix: the preferred runtime pack was
listed among the defaults it already belongs to, so its directory was
scanned twice for every reference that is not in it, and one package
folder was probed once per assembly the package contains.
Measured over 27 references with a fresh resolver each time: 3.3 ms per
assembly before, 3.1 ms without a scope, 1.1 ms with one.
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Metadata as attributes on an item element is MSBuild 15 syntax. The
non-SDK project format is what an export falls back to for toolchains
that predate the SDK, and those reject an unknown attribute on an item
element, so a Page item carrying Generator and SubType as attributes
undoes the reason to write that format at all. Every non-SDK project
written by anything else keeps metadata in child elements.
The SDK-style writer keeps attributes: there the syntax is a given and
it is what the format's own tooling produces.
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The GAC probe only ever looked for the exact folder of the requested version.
For about a hundred assemblies the .NET Framework 4.7.2/4.8 reference assemblies
carry a higher version than the implementation ever installed in the GAC
(System.IO.Compression is 4.2.0.0 against 4.0.0.0 in the GAC, System.Runtime is
4.1.2.0, ...), because out-of-band packages shipped those versions and the ref
assemblies had to keep up. The runtime hides this behind assembly unification;
without an equivalent, every reference to one of them was reported as
unresolvable.
Matching on the major version keeps assemblies apart that share a name but are
different products, e.g. Microsoft.Build.Framework 4.0.0.0 and 15.x.
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The exporter dropped PresentationFramework, System.Xaml, System.Windows.Forms
and System.Drawing from every project it wrote, whatever the assembly used,
while a second list held the remaining WPF assemblies behind a WPF check. The
SDK draws the line elsewhere: Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop.props promotes
the nine _WpfCommonNetFxReference items to _SDKImplicitReference only when
UseWPF is set, System.Windows.Forms only when UseWindowsForms is, and
WindowsFormsIntegration only when both are. A XAML-only assembly therefore lost
a reference that nothing supplied, and a WPF application that also used Windows
Forms lost the Windows Forms references while the project only said UseWPF.
Following the SDK there makes WPF and Windows Forms independent rather than
alternatives, which is what the flags enum is for: an assembly can use both,
and then both properties have to be written. Where an assembly looks like more
than one kind of project, the web SDK wins the Sdk attribute, because
Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web imports Microsoft.NET.Sdk and so carries the desktop
targets, while Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop carries no web targets.
System.Drawing stays unconditional: Microsoft.NET.Sdk.BeforeCommon.targets adds
it for every .NETFramework target rather than only for Windows Forms ones, and
on .NET Core it ships in the Microsoft.NETCore.App reference pack.
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An exported WPF project listed PresentationCore next to the implicit
Windows Desktop framework reference, which is a duplicate reference
(MSB3243) or an unresolvable one (MSB3245) once the hint path stops
pointing anywhere. The target-pack filter that should have caught it
asks the assembly resolver, which answers by probing the shared
frameworks installed on the machine running the export - so the same
assembly exported from Linux, or from a Windows box without the
desktop runtime, produced a different project file. What the SDK adds
for UseWPF is a fixed list, so match it by name instead.
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Microsoft.NET.Sdk imports the Windows Desktop targets itself for .NET
Framework and for .NET 5 and later, and warns (NETSDK1137) about every
project that still names the separate SDK. Only .NET Core 3.x, where
those targets are not imported without a platform-suffixed moniker,
genuinely needs Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop.
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A .NET 5 or later project that sets UseWPF or UseWindowsForms is
rejected outright (NETSDK1136) unless its target framework names the
Windows platform, so an exported WPF assembly produced a project that
could not build at all. The platform belongs to the assembly rather
than to WPF - TargetPlatformAttribute records it, SupportedOSPlatform
its minimum version - so the moniker follows the attributes wherever
they are present, and falls back to plain "windows" only for a desktop
project built before those attributes existed. Monikers older than
net5.0 take no platform suffix and must not grow one.
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The WPF markup compiler generates the program entry point from the
ApplicationDefinition item, so an exported project that lists App.xaml
as a Page has no Main at all and fails to build with CS5001. Both the
UI and ilspycmd already resolve the BAML root's partial class, which
makes deriving Application from System.Windows.Application the natural
signal. The module additionally has to have an entry point of its own:
a library that merely contains an Application subclass would otherwise
have MSBuild generate a Main into it.
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Sanitizing a resource name is not injective: "a+b/logo.png", "a&b/logo.png"
and "a#b/logo.png" all come out as "a-b/logo.png". The writers create files
with FileMode.Create, so every colliding entry but the last was lost, and
nothing was written to the error list to say so - an assembly can be built
to make that happen to as many entries as it likes. A WPF probe assembly
with 20 resource entries exported as 13 files.
Uniquifying is enough because the exported item already pins the true name
in its LogicalName, so the file on disk has to be unique, not faithful. The
suffix search resumes where the previous collision on a name left off, so a
crafted pile of collisions stays linear rather than quadratic, and the name
is trimmed to keep the segment within the file system's limit.
Directory creation moves inside the per-entry error recovery for the same
reason: an entry named after a directory another entry needs makes it throw,
and that has to cost the one entry rather than the rest of the container.
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A rebuilt WPF project only resolves its own pack URIs when every entry of
"<AssemblyName>.g.resources" comes back under the resource ID it had before.
The file on disk cannot carry that ID: it is sanitized for the file system,
and the ID itself is escaped. Verified against a WPF assembly built for this:
the WPF build tasks re-escape whatever LogicalName they are given, so the item
has to hand them the decoded name, and an entry left as EmbeddedResource
rebuilds into a manifest resource of its own instead of into ".g.resources".
The adjustment is made where the items are collected, so it covers the base
class and both hosts that plug their own BAML handling into it without
widening the WriteResourceToFile or IResourceFileHandler contracts.
The Resource build action this gives them is also what #2253 asks for.
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The SDK-style writer only ever emitted EmbeddedResource items, so every other
item type the export produced never reached the project file. XAML recovered
from BAML lands in Page items: ILSpy wrote the .xaml files to disk and the
project referenced none of them, leaving an exported WPF project that cannot
rebuild.
Explicit items collide with the SDK's own globs - a UseWPF project globs
**/*.xaml into Page, and NETSDK1022 rejects the duplicate - so each include is
preceded by a remove of the same item type, the pattern the EmbeddedResource
path already uses. Setting EnableDefaultPageItems=false would work as well, but
it is WPF-specific and switches off a glob for the whole project, whereas the
remove is per item, applies to any item type, and keeps the SDK's item
definitions (XamlRuntime) in effect.
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WPF's build tasks key every Page and Resource item in
"<AssemblyName>.g.resources" by the item's relative path, lower-cased and
run through Uri.GetComponents(Path, UriEscaped) - so a folder named
"Resource Test" arrives as "resource%20test", and a folder named in any
non-ASCII script arrives as a run of UTF-8 percent escapes. Those escapes
are not part of the name; sanitizing them turned "resource%20test" into
"resource-20test" and any Chinese or umlaut folder into a line of hex.
Measured against a WPF assembly built for this: only space, '#', '{', '}'
and non-ASCII bytes are ever escaped, and Uri.UnescapeDataString is the
exact inverse - anything the escaper leaves alone contains no percent
sign, and a literal one arrives as %25. Only the WPF-generated containers
are affected, so a percent sign in any other .resources file stays part
of the name.
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Roslyn passes a display class into a local function by ref, and a local
function that only forwards that parameter to a sibling has no closure
variable of its own. The closure analysis therefore found nothing to
anchor it and fell back to the root method body, which put it out of
reach of the callees it forwards to; CallBuilder then hit the assert
guarding a local function reference it cannot resolve and emitted the
raw metadata name of the target instead.
The constructor path also mixed use-site containers into a scope the
closure analysis had already determined; when the use-sites live in
separate function bodies there is no common container, and resetting to
the constructor body threw that scope away.
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A chain of type forwarders is followed by assembly name, and every name resolves relative
to the assembly being decompiled - so a chain that leaves for another framework can be
pulled straight back into the directory it started in. A .NET Standard 2.0 assembly
sitting among .NET Framework 4.6.1 facades lost System.Linq.Enumerable that way: the
chain went netstandard -> System.Core (from the shared framework) -> System.Linq (back to
the input directory) -> netstandard, arriving at an assembly it had already passed
through. Nothing in the closure defines the type, so it stayed unknown and every LINQ
call decompiled as a static call with a delegate cast.
Once the closure is loaded, chains that return to an assembly they already visited are
walked a second time, resolving each hop next to the assembly that forwards it. The
assembly ending the repaired chain is loaded only once it is confirmed to declare the
type; it then wins the deduplication against the assembly of the same name it displaces,
which version order says nothing about. An assembly that neither forwards nor declares
the type ends the walk with nothing loaded, so a failed repair cannot displace anything.
Only chains that are already broken are walked twice. Preferring the forwarder's own
directory as a resolution policy was tried first and rejected: measured against a corpus,
it moved a .NET 8 facade's System.Runtime reference out of a net4x compilation, splitting
type identities so that overrides printed as virtual. The two cases cannot be told apart
where references are resolved, because that layer sees assembly names, not the type whose
chain is or is not terminating.
AssemblyReference now knows the module that declares it, which is what lets a hop be
resolved next to its forwarder, and its metadata reader is that module's.
A chain that cannot be repaired is reported in the reference load log the UI already
shows, once per reference: a facade forwards hundreds of types and they all fail together.
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Obfuscators put arbitrary characters into BAML strings, and XML 1.0 has no
representation for most control characters - a numeric character reference is invalid
for them too. Writing such a document threw ArgumentException from XmlWriter, which
loses the resource on project export and shows an exception instead of the page in the
UI. The escapes are spelled the way the C# output spells them, so one convention covers
both languages. Namespace URIs have to be escaped where the XNamespace is created rather
than in the final pass: the URI is baked into every element name built from it, so
patching only the xmlns declaration would desync the two. Characters XML can carry stay
untouched, so ordinary documents decompile byte-identically.
Every BAML stream of an assembly lives in one .resources container, and the recovery
around resource writing sat outside the loop over its entries, so a single page that
could not be written discarded every other page sharing the container with it.
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Change InferType() to an abstract method and implement for every ILInstruction.
With this change, we now always have enough information to create a variable of an appropriate type to store the result of evaluating the instruction.
This previously was not the case for instructions producing "other value type", for which the stacktype-based fallback incorrectly produced `object`.
C# 12 allows both on the explicitly typed parameter list of a lambda, and
nowhere else: an anonymous method cannot declare either, and neither can a
lambda whose parameter list is about to be dropped. Guarded by a setting so
the output stays valid for earlier language versions.
Only what the anonymous function's own metadata declares is written. A lambda
may state a default the delegate does not have, a different one, or none where
the delegate has one, and reflection over the lambda's method reports what the
lambda declared - so filling either in from the delegate's Invoke would make
the recompiled assembly describe itself differently from the original. Call
sites are unaffected either way, because they bind against the delegate, which
still declares both.
Roslyn writes ParamArrayAttribute on the anonymous function's own method only
from version 5 on; before that it stands on the delegate type alone, where it
is not the lambda's to restate, so the fixture guards those cases on ROSLYN5.
The correctness test reads the metadata back through reflection, which is the
only place the difference is observable.
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The C# 10 grammar only allows attributes on a lambda or its parameters
when the parameter list is parenthesized, but LambdaNeedsParenthesis
predates attribute support and only considered the single parameter's
type and modifiers. An attributed lambda whose parameter type is erased
for being anonymous therefore printed as '[My] a => a.X', which does not
parse. Latent since attributed-lambda decompilation was added: every
other attributed lambda has explicitly typed parameters, which already
force the parenthesized form.
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A missing value-type definition makes ILReader insert a Ref-to-Unknown conversion before instance calls. Preserve the managed-reference receiver so C# output does not fall back to invalid ref casts or unsafe pointers.
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol:Codex
Assigning through a ref-conditional, (cond ? ref a : ref b) = value, was
emitted without the parentheses, so it re-parsed as
cond ? ref a : (ref b = value) and failed to compile (CS8156 / CS0201).
The target was only parenthesized above assignment precedence, but a
conditional binds tighter than assignment, so the check let it through.
Require the assignment target to have precedence above the conditional
operator. Ordinary lvalues (locals, fields, indexers) are primary
expressions and are unaffected; the postfix ++ form already parenthesized
correctly via unary precedence. Covers plain and compound assignments alike.
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This way, we don't need the MapToMergedBounds logic to split the merged list back into lower/upper.
Also, this commit avoids the quadratic merge-everything-with-everything else -- instead we use a dictionary to compare only types that are equivalent to begin with.
This is the same approach as Roslyn MethodTypeInference.Fix/AddAllCandidates.
NullPropagationTransform only rewrites "x != null ? x.Chain : fallback"
into "x?.Chain ?? fallback" when the chain's inferred type is a
non-nullable value type, and InferType had no case for ldlen. Array length
therefore came back as UnknownType, so "arr?.Length ?? 0" was left as a
ternary.
The inferred type mirrors ExpressionBuilder.VisitLdLen, which decides
between Array.Length and Array.LongLength from the result type alone.
Found while investigating #3704, where the surviving ternary also keeps the
tested array in a stack slot and strands the typeof of a dynamic call's
static target. That issue is fixed separately in #4072, whose DynamicTests
cases pinned the ternary as expected output; those blocks round-trip
exactly now, so they are gone.
Also carries a review follow-up that missed #4072: the static-target test
in VisitDynamicInvokeMemberInstruction is a plain null check, the way
DynamicInvokeMemberInstruction itself tests the field, rather than a
pattern match binding a name it does not need.
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A local function nested in a lambda can capture closures at two depths:
csc emits it as an instance method on the enclosing method's display
class that takes the lambda's display class as a parameter. Combining
those two capture scopes with FindCommonAncestorInstruction picked the
enclosing method, moving the function out of the lambda that owns the
deeper closure; the variables captured there were then unreachable and
the display-class parameter survived into the output as an undeclared
identifier. Nested capture scopes resolve to the innermost instead,
which a local function can always see - it reaches the outer closure
through the display class it is declared on.
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Three places decided independently whether a backing field would still be
declared, and they disagreed. ReplaceBackingFieldUsage rewrote a constructor
store into a property assignment whenever the property looked collapsible,
without asking whether PatternStatementTransform would actually remove the
declaration; ConvertField printed the "field" keyword on the FieldKeyword
setting alone, ignoring the GetterOnlyAutomaticProperties veto that
MemberIsHidden applies to the same field.
Two consequences, both silent. A setter-less property under
GetterOnlyAutomaticProperties = false kept its declaration and got "field" in
the getter anyway, so the keyword bound to a second synthesized field and the
declared one went unwritten. A settable property under AutomaticProperties =
false had its initializing store turned into a property assignment that
TransformFieldAndConstructorInitializers could no longer lift, leaving the
constructor in the output with an unconverted base-constructor call.
BackingFieldWillBeRemoved is now the single verdict every branch consults, and
it mirrors the transform's own entry gate. A property that keeps explicit
accessors is no longer addressed by name: the store stays a field reference and
becomes the property initializer, which is what field-backed storage means. The
one exception is a setter-less property's constructor store, which C# allows to
be written as an assignment and which has no other expressible form.
IsBackingFieldOfAutomaticProperty now answers through TryGetBackingField instead
of its own name check, so the two directions of "is this field that property's
storage" cannot diverge on staticness or field type. ReplaceBackingFieldUsage
dispatches on the resolve result rather than the identifier's spelling; after
ConvertField the same field appears both as "field" and under its metadata name
carrying the same annotation, so matching the name was matching the wrong thing.
The keyword's own precondition moves into a CanUseFieldKeyword local function.
Seven clauses with comment blocks wedged between them had to be read as one
expression; as one early return per rule the list reads in order.
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ExpressionBuilder.ConvertField prints the C# 14 "field" keyword based on the
FieldKeyword setting alone, but PatternStatementTransform only entered the
property transform when AutomaticProperties was on. With FieldKeyword on and
AutomaticProperties off the backing-field declaration was therefore never
removed, and the output declared the backing field next to accessors already
written in terms of "field".
That output still compiles, which is what makes it dangerous: the keyword binds
to a second, freshly synthesized backing field while the declared one stays
unwritten, so the recompiled assembly has different storage than the input.
Only a CS0169 "field is never used" warning hints at it.
AutomaticProperties governs only whether trivial accessors collapse to
"get;"/"set;"; the declaration removal inside the transform is a separate step
that FieldKeyword alone is enough to justify. The entry gate now mirrors
CSharpDecompiler.MemberIsHidden, which already made the field's visibility
depend on either setting, with GetterOnlyAutomaticProperties vetoing the
getter-only case for both.
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HandleConditionalOperator collapses `if (c) a = x; else a = y;` into a
conditional operator, innermost first, and keeps going for as long as the
chain does. A source else-if ladder therefore comes back as one expression,
however long it was: the sample in #2027 decompiles to a single
2095-character statement, and one NLog method to 2230 characters nested 29
brackets deep.
ExpandNestedConditionals undoes that past one level, so a statement keeps at
most a single conditional operator.
It runs at the end of the pipeline rather than inside ExpressionTransforms,
because every transform that needs its input to be a single expression has
to see the collapsed form first: object and collection initializers, `with`,
switch expressions, interpolated string handlers, and the query lambdas the
C# stage later rewrites into clauses. Cutting the chain earlier leaves an
if-else between the statements they pattern-match on and they silently stop
matching - an object initializer assigning an init-only member then does not
even compile. The same reasoning ReduceNestingTransform gives for walking
back ConditionDetection's aggressive else-inlining once the structure is
settled.
A chain already stored to a variable is expanded into that variable, so
nothing has to be decided: the variable carries its own type. A chain in any
other position - an argument, a return value, a field store - has nothing to
expand into, and ILExtraction can give it one. The temporary ILExtraction
creates is typed from the stack type though, where `I4` is `int`, `bool`,
`char` and every enum at once, so extracting on that basis turned a bool
into `int num` with `if (num == 0)` and an enum into
`dbType = (IsFixedLength ? 22 : 0)`.
InferExpectedType is the counterpart to InferType that answers this: where
InferType asks what a value is, it asks what the position the value flows
into says it should be - a parameter, a return type, a field, all of which
carry their type in metadata. Extraction is done only where that question
has an answer, and the temporary is typed from it. The receiver of a call
then reads `XPathNavigator xPathNavigator`, not `object obj` with a cast
back, and a field store keeps its enum's member names.
The Pretty fixture covers what must NOT change: an array initializer, a
query lambda, a ref local, a switch expression, an object initializer with
an init-only member, a `with` expression, a catch-when filter and both
constructor-initializer forms. The positive case is an ILPretty test,
because a Pretty fixture is its own input and expected output, and a chain
that round-trips through collapse and expansion has no fixed point there.
The PdbGen test records the cost in breakpoints: the compiler's single
sequence point for the collapsed statement becomes one per expanded
statement, which is inherent to splitting a statement in two.
#2027
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A dynamic call site that names a type passes typeof(T) as its target. When
a later argument contains control flow, the compiler stores that typeof in
a temporary. ILInlining does not undo this: it inlines a store only into
the immediately following instruction, so an intervening statement leaves
the typeof behind, and the expression builder printed the temporary instead
of the type. Substituting the typeof back into the target slot is not an
option either, because a call there has side effects and blocks inlining of
the remaining arguments.
The type is therefore stored on the instruction. Object creation already
did this, but kept the field private, so the expression builder re-derived
the type from the target argument and failed on the spilled form. Member
invocation gets the same field. Both drop the target from Arguments, so the
dead-argument handling removes the store; ArgumentInfo keeps its entry for
the target, because the invocation symbol is built from it.
The type of an object creation is not nullable: the transform returns
before constructing the instruction when it cannot match the typeof, and
substitutes the unknown type otherwise. An unresolvable type therefore
reaches the expression builder as the unresolved type it is, and prints as
`?` like any other, rather than being indistinguishable from a missing one.
Those two are also the only binder method kinds that ever see
CSharpArgumentInfoFlags.IsStaticType. Every other way of naming a type as
the receiver binds statically and leaves only a conversion of the dynamic
operand behind.
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Dock 12.1.0.6 removed the public JsonConverterFactoryList/JsonConverterList<T>
converters from Dock.Serializer.SystemTextJson that ILSpyDockJson used to
deserialize IList<T> into ObservableCollection<T>. Dock now does the same
substitution with an internal JsonTypeInfo modifier that swaps CreateObject
for IList<T> enumerables. ILSpyDockJson mirrors that technique in its own
modifier chain, which also removes the per-element JsonSerializer.Serialize
side effect the old converter had.
Also bumps Xaml.Behaviors.Avalonia, ProDataGrid, AwesomeAssertions, CliWrap,
NUnit3TestAdapter, and the decompiler minor version to 11.1.
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Whether an unresolvable type is a reference type is not a property of the
type but of the metadata that mentioned it: a signature spelling it
`valuetype T` yields false, a bare TypeRef yields null. UnknownType.Equals
compares the flag, so the two spellings of one missing type compared
unequal and EquivalentTypes reported false - the decompiler then emitted a
cast between a type and itself.
Erasing the flag in NormalizeTypeVisitor keeps the relaxation inside the
comparisons that ask for erasure, next to the nullability, modopt and tuple
erasure that are use-site spellings of the same kind. Dropping the term
from UnknownType.Equals instead was measured and rejected: Equals also keys
CSharpConversions' implicit-conversion cache, where merging the two
spellings lets whichever conversion is computed first answer for both,
adding 398 boxing casts across two real-world assemblies.
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This was due to StackType.O doing double-duty as `object` and `other`.
While ExpressionBuilder would often improve the type of such locals, the `object` nevertheless ended up used in a couple of places, e.g. via the `typeHint`. This could result in value types being boxed even though the original IL didn't contain any `box` instruction.
This is an attempt to use better types for stack slot variables created by ILReader. The idea is: there aren't many IL instructions that produce "other" value types, and `InferType()` already handles pretty much all of them, so we can use that to assign types to our stack slots.
It's a bit more tricky if the stack is pushed to on multiple branches that join together before the value is used: here the variable type must be suitable for both assignments. In this case, we go back to the previously-used stacktype.
Typing "M:System.Linq.Enumerable.Where" at a command line is a reasonable thing
to do, and it found nothing: resolution compares the whole id string, so a form
without the parameter list only ever matched a member that genuinely takes none.
Spelling the signature out is no answer, because it means knowing the overload
count before asking. The same goes for a generic arity - and the exact spelling,
Dictionary`2, does not even survive an unquoted bash prompt, where a backtick
starts command substitution.
None of that makes the short form legal. Measured against Roslyn: its own
DocumentationCommentId resolver accepts no abbreviation at all, and the compiler
never emits one - a cref is a different grammar, which the compiler binds and
rewrites into a full id, warning CS0419 and picking one member when the cref is
ambiguous. A prefixed cref is copied through unvalidated, so an id in a
documentation file can be anything a human typed.
So the id grammar stays exact and IdStringProvider stays with it, which is what
lets cref-following trust its answer. The tolerance belongs to the callers that
serve people typing, and lives in DocumentationIdSearch as a ladder that loosens
one thing at a time: the exact id, then the id without its parameter list, then
without generic arities. Stating a detail wrongly still finds nothing; only
leaving one out asks for any. A rung may match several members and all of them
are returned, because which to present is the caller's decision and hiding the
rest would hide that the id was ambiguous.
ilspycmd shows every member of the group, headed by a comment naming the
ambiguity, and accepts the shapes people actually type: no prefix, a shortened
namespace, and arity written the cref or C# way.
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This also matters in the `1 => DateTime.Now, 2 => null` case -- BestCommonType infers `DateTime` here, but we need `DateTime?` instead. But both had `StackType.O` so this went wrong prior to this commit.
* merge object/dynamic distinctions like we do with tuple element names. This fixes BestCommonType(object, dynamic).
* add a test that `new[] { 1, null }` has the "best common type" = `int`. The conversion error from `null` to `int` only happens later, it's not related to the best common type computation.
Three copies of the same pre-order walk across two test files become
TreeTraversal.PreOrder, and the stepper fixture builds its decompiler through
the file-name constructor instead of assembling the type system by hand.
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The state the ExpressionBuilder and StatementBuilder leave behind was only
reachable as "state before the first AST transform" - an entry that names a
transform rather than the state, and that sits below every member's group in a
tree with one group per member. It is now a top-level step at the seam, where
the whole type is converted and nothing has transformed it yet.
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Recording only gated the IL half, so a run with it off still numbered the C# AST
transforms into the shared stepper. That gave one pipeline two numbering scales,
and a step index is only meaningful against the scale it was recorded on: a tree
captured under one and replayed under the other selects a different step. It
also let the crashed-member attribution fire on a counter that had never moved -
a limit of zero matched at every throwing transform and rendered an unrelated
member's ILAst.
The flag now gates both halves, so steps exist exactly when recording is on, and
it lives on the pane instance rather than a static the background decompile read
across threads.
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The pane used to split the pipeline across two languages: the ILAst language
stepped the IL transforms, the C# language stepped the AST transforms, and
nothing showed the seam between them, so a step index meant a different thing
depending on which language happened to be selected. Recording both halves into
one Stepper makes an index replayable across the whole pipeline; a limit that
lands in the IL phase has no C# to print, so the halted function is rendered as
ILAst instead.
Which function that is takes some care, because a member group's EndStep is the
next member's first step: a halt standing on a member's opening step belongs to
the member that just finished, a transform that throws where the limit was aimed
has to hand over the ILAst it half-transformed (what the ILAst language showed
as "ILAst after the crash"), and a step recorded on a helper function the
pipeline has not attached yet belongs to that function's own tree.
Retention stays opt-in twice over: the decompiler records IL steps only when
asked to, and the pane asks only while its view is on screen. Every kept step
pins the ILAst it captured, which for one type runs to tens of thousands of
nodes, so a closed pane would be paying for a tree nobody displays.
What is left of the ILAst language is its typed-IL dump, which runs no
transforms at all. That stays, as TypedILLanguage. IDebugStepProvider was down
to a single implementation and is removed.
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Twenty shapes that no fixture covered: nesting at depth three and at position
zero, inner discards on either side, property and no-conversion targets, and
deconstruction inside try, switch, if/else and while. All but one already
decompile correctly - they are checked in so a future change to
DeconstructionTransform cannot silently drop them.
The one that does not is left commented out with a pointer to #4059 rather than
as a red test: two back-to-back deconstructions share their out-slot
temporaries, and neither is recognized.
#4059
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A merging obfuscator can leave a module referencing two versions of the same
assembly. Loading both split every type they declare into two definitions that
compare unequal, so a signature naming such a type through one reference stopped
matching a base method naming it through the other, and a genuine override was
printed as virtual. ac0ef8a11 (#3253) dropped the lower-version duplicates, but
nothing covered that, and neither of the existing fixture kinds can carry the
three assemblies the situation needs.
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Two test fixtures carried their own copy of the 32-byte signature, which
would silently drift from the real one. The signature is now an internal
member of SingleFileBundle and ILSpy.Tests gets internals access to the
decompiler assembly, matching what ILSpyX already grants it.
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Christoph Wille
Siegfried Pammer
Daniel Grunwald
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