Making a conversion implicit by unwrapping it hands the operand to a
different target type, and a default literal takes its value from that
type: "S? x = new S?(default)" holds a value, while "S? x = default" is
null. Unwrapping the nullable constructor around a shortened literal
therefore turned "S? x = default(S)" into a null nullable. The literal is
spelled out again whenever unwrapping moves it to a type other than the one
it was shortened from.
Converting a using resource to the declared variable type is unconditional
now (except when the declaration says "var", which supplies no type): the
declaration always spells the type out, so any conversion to it may stay
implicit, which is also what shortens default(T) there.
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Mutating the DefaultValueExpression is enough here; ConvertTo already hands
out mutated input nodes elsewhere (UnwrapChild), so building a replacement
node and copying the annotations over bought nothing.
The operator special case is easy to mistake for a cosmetic preference,
because the null literal is accepted in the same position: it converts only
to reference and nullable types, so it still narrows operator overload
resolution, whereas the default literal converts to everything and C#
rejects it outright for every binary operator except == and !=.
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Shortening default(T) is the same problem as removing the redundant cast
around a lambda whose delegate type the context already fixes, so it uses
the same mechanism: ConvertTo makes the explicit type implicit when the
conversion is an identity conversion and the caller allows an implicit
one. The literal keeps the type it was shortened from, so any later
conversion to a different type - or any context that requires an explicit
type, such as an overload resolution recheck falling back to CastArguments
- can spell default(T) out again. That keeps the value intact where the
bare literal would change it, e.g. "object o = default(SomeStruct)", which
boxes a non-null struct while "default" would be null.
Because the shortened literal resolves to DefaultLiteralResolveResult,
CallBuilder's existing overload resolution recheck sees a real default
literal and rejects ambiguous calls on its own; no separate bookkeeping
about which arguments may stay untyped is needed. Only the contexts that
supply no target type at all restore the explicit form: an awaited
expression, and arguments of operator methods, which later become operator
or cast syntax rather than calls.
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The C# 14 compiler lowers implicit span conversions to calls -
MemoryExtensions.AsSpan(string), ReadOnlySpan<T>.CastUp, and the span
op_Implicit operators - so decompiled code showed the lowered form even
though the conversion and betterness layers already implement the C# 14
rules. CallBuilder now folds those helper calls back into conversions,
riding the existing mechanism: the conversion is built as an explicit
cast, consumption sites make it implicit where the context allows, and
the overload-resolution recheck re-adds a cast when the bare argument
would bind to a different overload (which canonicalizes deliberate
AsSpan disambiguations to the equivalent explicit span cast).
Span conversions compose, so CastCanBeMadeImplicit lets a direct
input-to-target span conversion replace a chained pair; and an rvalue
bound to an in parameter gets the same chance to shed the cast as a
by-value argument, since ChangeDirectionExpressionTo bypasses the
by-value strip.
Part of #829.
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Turn on #nullable enable across the AST consumer layer: the output visitor, the
IL-to-C# builders (statement, call and expression builders, CSharpDecompiler,
TypeSystemAstBuilder), the translation-result wrappers, the sequence-point and
required-namespace collectors, and the annotation helpers. Optional inputs,
fields and returns are typed nullable, detector out-parameters use
[NotNullWhen(true)], and structurally-guaranteed dereferences use the
null-forgiving operator. A few public parameters that already tolerate null are
widened to match their downstream callers. The annotations emit no IL, so the
Pretty suite stays byte-identical.
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The previously emitted `ref *(TTo*)(&source)` only compiles when `source` is a local variable; otherwise C# complains about the memory not being pinned.
Note that we special-case local variables to keep the previous behavior around; this avoids pulling in `System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll` when it's unnecessary.
This can happen if an application is compiled for .NET 4.6.2 and references
System.ValueTuple.dll; but ILSpy loads the latest mscorlib (e.g. .NET 4.7)
which also contains struct System.ValueTuple.
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