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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I think this isn't reliable enough yet to actually omit parameter types for lambdas (it only protects against switching to the wrong overload; not against type inference failures); so for now it's only used in the query expression transform.
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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'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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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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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.
This is a work-in-progress; ILSpy is not functional with this commit.
The old code path still exists but is broken because some classes were modified for the new system.
The new system is still highly incomplete (types only have fields, but no methods).
Daniel Grunwald