What are the "accepted literal types"?

[Pascual ataeda]

Hello,

According to the MSDN documentation, FieldInfo.GetValue throws a
NotSupportedException if “A field is marked literal, but the field does
not have one of the accepted literal types”.

What are the accepted literal types? What are the unaccepted literal
types?

*** Sent via Devdex http://www.devdex.com ***
Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!

[Mattias Sjögren]

What are the accepted literal types?

That would be the types that you can write consts for (17.3 in the C#
language spec)

bool, char, float, double, [s]byte, [u]short, [u]int, [u]long, string,
any enum type plus the null value for any reference type.

C# also supports writing decimal consts, but IIRC that's implemented
as a static readonly field with a custom attribute, and I'm not sure
if the FieldInfo class supports that or not.

Mattias

--
Mattias Sjögren [MVP] mattias @ mvps.org
http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/ | http://www.dotnetinterop.com
Please reply only to the newsgroup.