[fpc-devel] .NET Reflection vs RTTI

Marc Weustink marc.weustink at cuperus.nl
Tue Nov 20 10:53:10 CET 2007


Thorsten Engler wrote:
>> Apart from the custom attributes and the Invoke, I don't see 
>> what there is extra ?
> 
> No usable RTTI for records
> No usable RTTI for arrays
> No RTTI for private, protected and public(!) members (only published)
> No usable RTTI for published methods (param and return types are just given
> as strings, not as references to other type infos, no information about
> calling convention)
> No usable type information for published fields (only a name to offset
> mapping is given, no type information at all)
> And so on...

One could prostitute the dwarf debuginfo for this ;)

Marc




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