ILASM/ILDASM bug(?)

[gpsmobiler]

Hi,

I found through a lot of exhausting searching, that the following C#
code will cause the IL code below:

const byte ICON_MONO12BY12 =0;

....... IL-file....
.field literal private static unsigned int8 'a' = uint8 (0)

When ILASM tries to compile the IL code, I get this error:
error : syntax error at token 'uint8' in: .field literal public
static unsigned int8 'a' = uint8 (0)

If I change my C# code to use 'const sbyte ...' then it works.

Does anyone know if there is a fix for this bug? (somewhere to get
better ILASM/ILDASM executables?)

[Mattias Sjögren]

>I found through a lot of exhausting searching, that the following C#

code will cause the IL code below:

const byte ICON_MONO12BY12 =0;

...... IL-file....
.field literal private static unsigned int8 'a' = uint8 (0)

I can't reproduce this. Which version of Ildasm and Ilasm are you
using? The output I get is

..field private static literal unsigned int8 ICON_MONO12BY12 =
int8(0x00)

from the Ildasm v1.1 and

..field private static literal uint8 ICON_MONO12BY12 = uint8(0x00)

from the 2.0 version. Note that uint8 is only a keyword in 2.0, in
previous version you used 'unsigned int8'.
Mattias

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[AMercer]

Could this be just the QUOTEALLNAMES command line option?

"gp********@gma il.com" wrote:

Hi,

I found through a lot of exhausting searching, that the following C#
code will cause the IL code below:

const byte ICON_MONO12BY12 =0;

....... IL-file....
.field literal private static unsigned int8 'a' = uint8 (0)

When ILASM tries to compile the IL code, I get this error:
error : syntax error at token 'uint8' in: .field literal public
static unsigned int8 'a' = uint8 (0)

If I change my C# code to use 'const sbyte ...' then it works.

Does anyone know if there is a fix for this bug? (somewhere to get
better ILASM/ILDASM executables?)

[gpsmobiler]

Mattias Sjögren wrote:

.field private static literal unsigned int8 ICON_MONO12BY12 =
int8(0x00)

from the Ildasm v1.1 and

.field private static literal uint8 ICON_MONO12BY12 = uint8(0x00)

from the 2.0 version. Note that uint8 is only a keyword in 2.0, in
previous version you used 'unsigned int8'.

I have ildasm v2.x. I'm getting this problem with the annoying
Dotfrustrator Community Edition. It seems it has an ilasm embedded in
it somewhere, because I can't find it in my filesystem. I can't check
it's version, but it is probably 1.1, thus the conflict.

Do you know where I can download ildasm v1.1?

[gpsmobiler]

I'm not aware of what this option does, but it is being used (by
Dotfrustrator Community Edition, which is the source of all this
stress).

[AMercer]

> I'm not aware of what this option does, but it is being used (by

Dotfrustrator Community Edition, which is the source of all this
stress).

The ildasm command line help (ildasm /? at the command prompt) gives:

/QUOTEALLNAMES Include all names into single quotes.

So, you coded this:

const byte ICON_MONO12BY12 =0;

The obfuscator changed "CON_MONO12BY12 "to "a", and then QUOTEALLNAMES added
the single quotes to yield:

.field literal private static unsigned int8 'a' = uint8 (0)

I'm fairly confident that this explains what went wrong. I'm not sure what
to do about it - no experience with obfuscator and limited experience with
ildasm/ilasm. Maybe you can turn the option off. Maybe you can tell ilasm
to expect single quotes. I thinik this is an obfuscator issue, not an IL
issue, so maybe a repost in a different forum might help.