Re: [Pnet-developers] Visibility modifiers from ILMethod*?

[Gopal V]

Petter Haggholm wrote:
> Quick question: I'm hacking on Portable.NET for a course project and 
> need to extract miscellaneous information given an ILMethod*; 

Interesting ...

> wondering, is there any way I can find, given an ILMethod*, that 
> method's visibility modifier -- e.g. public, private ...? For that 
> matter -- is it /available?/ 

#define ILMethod_IsPublic(method)   \
    ((ILMemberGetAttrs((ILMember *)(method)) & \
                IL_META_METHODDEF_MEMBER_ACCESS_MASK) \
                    == IL_META_METHODDEF_PUBLIC)

From il_program.h:1191

> while I've been able to find most of the information I need through e.g. 
> ILMember and similar classes, this one thing eludes me (and grepping the 
> source directory for e.g. "private" gives far too many results to be 
> useful).

cscope rules. And a good approach is to figure out how ildasm gets
this data. pnet/dumpasm/ is basically where all that lives.

All that code sort of implements inheritance where a pointer is a
ILProgramItem, ILMember and ILMethod all in once. Casts all over
the place - it becomes slightly hard to start off with :)

Cheers,
Gopal
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