Creates a method description for name, which conforms to the following specification:

[namespace.]classname:methodname[(args...)]

in all the loaded assemblies.

Both classname and methodname can contain '*' which matches anything.

Releases the MonoMethodDesc object desc.

Returns an unmanaged->managed thunk that can be used to call a managed method directly from C.

The thunk's C signature closely matches the managed signature:

C#: public bool Equals (object obj); C: typedef MonoBoolean (*Equals)(MonoObject*, MonoObject*, MonoException**);

The 1st ("this") parameter must not be used with static methods:

C#: public static bool ReferenceEquals (object a, object b); C: typedef MonoBoolean (*ReferenceEquals)(MonoObject*, MonoObject*, MonoException**);

The last argument must be a non-null pointer of a MonoException* pointer. It has "out" semantics. After invoking the thunk, *ex will be NULL if no exception has been thrown in managed code. Otherwise it will point to the MonoException* caught by the thunk. In this case, the result of the thunk is undefined:

MonoMethod *method = ... // MonoMethod* of System.Object.Equals MonoException *ex = NULL; Equals func = mono_method_get_unmanaged_thunk (method); MonoBoolean res = func (thisObj, objToCompare, &ex); if (ex) { // handle exception }

The calling convention of the thunk matches the platform's default convention. This means that under Windows, C declarations must contain the __stdcall attribute:

C: typedef MonoBoolean (__stdcall *Equals)(MonoObject*, MonoObject*, MonoException**);

LIMITATIONS

Value type arguments and return values are treated as they were objects:

C#: public static Rectangle Intersect (Rectangle a, Rectangle b); C: typedef MonoObject* (*Intersect)(MonoObject*, MonoObject*, MonoException**);

Arguments must be properly boxed upon trunk's invocation, while return values must be unboxed.

Invokes the method represented by method on the object obj.

obj is the 'this' pointer, it should be NULL for static methods, a MonoObject* for object instances and a pointer to the value type for value types.

The params array contains the arguments to the method with the same convention: MonoObject* pointers for object instances and pointers to the value type otherwise.

From unmanaged code you'll usually use the mono_runtime_invoke() variant.

Note that this function doesn't handle virtual methods for you, it will exec the exact method you pass: we still need to expose a function to lookup the derived class implementation of a virtual method (there are examples of this in the code, though).

You can pass NULL as the exc argument if you don't want to catch exceptions, otherwise, *exc will be set to the exception thrown, if any. if an exception is thrown, you can't use the MonoObject* result from the function.

If the method returns a value type, it is boxed in an object reference.

Invokes the method represented by method on the object obj.

obj is the 'this' pointer, it should be NULL for static methods, a MonoObject* for object instances and a pointer to the value type for value types.

The params array contains the arguments to the method with the same convention: MonoObject* pointers for object instances and pointers to the value type otherwise. The _invoke_array variant takes a C# object[] as the params argument (MonoArray *params): in this case the value types are boxed inside the respective reference representation.

From unmanaged code you'll usually use the mono_runtime_invoke_checked() variant.

Note that this function doesn't handle virtual methods for you, it will exec the exact method you pass: we still need to expose a function to lookup the derived class implementation of a virtual method (there are examples of this in the code, though).

You can pass NULL as the exc argument if you don't want to catch exceptions, otherwise, *exc will be set to the exception thrown, if any. if an exception is thrown, you can't use the MonoObject* result from the function.

If the method returns a value type, it is boxed in an object reference.

Invokes the delegate method delegate with the parameters provided.

You can pass NULL as the exc argument if you don't want to catch exceptions, otherwise, *exc will be set to the exception thrown, if any. if an exception is thrown, you can't use the MonoObject* result from the function.

Return the signature of the method M. On failure, returns NULL.

Iterates over the parameters for the method signature sig. A void* pointer must be initualized to #NULL to start the iteration and it's address is passed to this function repeteadly until it returns #NULL.