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.
* 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.
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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Auditing against the first-class-span-types proposal turned up three
deviations, each now pinned by resolver unit tests whose expectations were
established by compiling probe programs with the C# 14 compiler.
Lower-bound type inference recursed into Span<T> targets as another
lower-bound inference, but Span<T> is invariant and the spec demands an
exact element inference there: M<T>(Span<T>, T) with (Span<string>, object)
must fail inference (CS0411), not unify to T=object.
Better-conversion-target compared ReadOnlySpan element types where the spec
compares the span types, admitting numeric and user-defined element
conversions the span types do not share: overloads taking ReadOnlySpan<int>
and ReadOnlySpan<long> are ambiguous (CS0121), not resolvable. The general
mutual-convertibility rule already implements the spec's span-type test, so
the element-level block is simply removed; the ReadOnlySpan-over-Span
identity rule stays, since it deliberately inverts that general rule.
The explicit span conversion did not exist at all, and with it the rule that
user-defined conversions are not considered between span-convertible types.
The visible consequence: string[] to Span<object> classified as an implicit
user-defined conversion via op_Implicit(object[]) plus array covariance,
where the compiler reports CS0266 - only the explicit span conversion
exists. Span conversions are also no longer considered for extension
receivers during method group conversion (CS0123), while invocations keep
them.
Part of #829.
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When fixing a type parameter, Roslyn merges the tuple element names of
bounds that are identical apart from those names: names are kept where
all bounds agree and dropped where they conflict (MergeTupleNames in
Roslyn's MethodTypeInference.cs). The C# standard does not describe
this step. Without it, fixing either kept the first bound's names
verbatim or, with two exact bounds differing only in names, failed
outright - so inferred tuple types could carry names csc would not
produce. All merged-name expectations are csc-verified.
Nullability is deliberately not merged: Roslyn derives it from the
variance of the position, which this implementation does not track, so
bounds that differ in it stay distinct and fixing fails as before
rather than inventing an annotation.
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'this' and 'base' both read the 'this' parameter of the function being
decompiled, but their resolve result did not say so: consumers that key on
ILVariableResolveResult (local-reference output, highlighting, hover) could
not connect the keyword to the variable, and the qualified/unqualified
spellings of the same access carried differently shaped annotations.
The resolver has no ILFunction and thus no variable to put into a
ThisResolveResult, so it stops synthesizing one: LookInCurrentType looks
the name up against the (self-parameterized) current type, which grants
the same protected access, and the annotation of an unqualified field
access is built from the translated target instead. ResolveThisReference
and ResolveBaseReference had no callers left and are removed.
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A cast must not reuse an implicit tuple conversion: its elements have to be
classified as cast conversions, which changes the outcome whenever an element
converts through a user-defined operator. Roslyn encodes the same rule in
ClassifyConversionFromTypeForCast via ExplicitConversionMayDifferFromImplicit,
but on our side it rested on an unexplained flag with nothing covering it, so
the flag read as removable. The comments and the test say why it stays.
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TypePair existed only to key that cache, and its hand-written equality
delegated to the same IType comparison the tuple's default comparer performs.
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The resolve-result hierarchy was split between ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Semantics
and ICSharpCode.Decompiler.CSharp.Resolver, so consumers had to know which half
a given result came from and import both namespaces. All subclasses now live
next to their base class; MethodListWithDeclaringType follows the method group
it describes, and ILVariableResolveResult gets its own file instead of sitting
among the syntax-tree annotation helpers.
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Nothing walked the resolve-result graph: the virtual method and its fourteen
overrides only ever called each other, with InvocationResolveResult's chained
base call as the sole call site in the tree.
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Both types are consumed well outside the C# output layer - DecompileRun
carries the using scope, and the IL transforms build a resolve context from
it - so living in ICSharpCode.Decompiler.CSharp.TypeSystem misrepresented
where they belong and forced a C#-specific namespace import on every
consumer.
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The resolver's await path has thrown NotImplementedException ever since the
type system rewrite, and nothing else in the repo constructs an
AwaitResolveResult, AliasTypeResolveResult or AliasNamespaceResolveResult:
the decompiler builds await expressions from IL, and alias references never
go through name resolution.
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The resolver comments cited section numbers from the C# 4.0 spec (and a
few from C# 9.0 drafts), which no longer match the published ECMA-334
standard. Renumber them against dotnet/csharpstandard draft-v11; every
reference was checked against the actual section headings. The old
'better conversion from type' subclause (7.5.3.4) no longer exists as
such and its rules live in 12.6.4.5-12.6.4.7, so that comment now says
so instead of pointing at a dead number.
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Dynamic member accesses and invocations carried only the member name
(DynamicMemberResolveResult / DynamicInvocationResolveResult), so
GetSymbol returned null and the editor emitted no reference or hover.
Synthesize a member on the target type - a dynamic field for a member
access, a dynamic-returning method for a member invocation - named after
the accessed member and typed from the callsite delegate: each argument
uses its recorded compile-time type when the binder set one (statically
typed or constant arguments), dynamic otherwise, and the declaring type
comes from the receiver's argument info. Route these through GetSymbol;
TextTokenWriter and the hover renderer already turn an IEntity into a
tooltip. The synthesized members have no metadata token, so they render
a signature on hover but are not navigation targets.
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