Problem with .maxstack in IL-roundtripping tools

re: Problem with .maxstack in IL-roundtripping tools

Kevin Lindsey — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:03:17 GMT

FWIW, I think the default stack value of 8 comes from the CLI specification and not necessarily from ILAsm. In Partition II, "24.4.2 Tiny Format", it states when a tiny header is used as the method header type "The operand stack need be no bigger than 8 entries." But I agree that it would be cool to have ILAsm compute the .maxstack for you.

re: Problem with .maxstack in IL-roundtripping tools

jmstall — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:33:28 GMT

Kevin - you're correct (that's what Serge said when I talked to him about it).
There's certainly no innate correlation between default stack size for a tiny header and default maxstack value in ilasm; so using tiny header's defaults for maxstack seems silly.
Afterall, once you're editing things at the IL level (and not worrying about binary encodings), "tiny header" becomes just a meaningless concept.

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