* Explains rationale for typeof(MulticastDelegate) which was debugged on Windows, but committed from my Linux machine.

Barton Cline · Barton Cline · commit 25bbdaffbfa4 · 2011-03-07T02:13:08.000Z
diff --git a/pythonnet/src/runtime/classmanager.cs b/pythonnet/src/runtime/classmanager.cs
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ private ClassManager() {}
 
         static ClassManager() {
             cache = new Dictionary<Type, ClassBase>(128);
+            // SEE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/96b1ayy4%28VS.90%29.aspx
+            // ""All delegates inherit from MulticastDelegate, which inherits from Delegate.""
+            // Was Delegate, which caused a null MethodInfo returned from GetMethode("Invoke")
+            // and crashed on Linux under Mono.
             dtype = typeof(System.MulticastDelegate);
         }
 

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`@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ private ClassManager() {}`
`35`	`35`
`36`	`36`	`static ClassManager() {`
`37`	`37`	`cache = new Dictionary<Type, ClassBase>(128);`
	`38`	`+ // SEE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/96b1ayy4%28VS.90%29.aspx`
	`39`	`+ // ""All delegates inherit from MulticastDelegate, which inherits from Delegate.""`
	`40`	`+ // Was Delegate, which caused a null MethodInfo returned from GetMethode("Invoke")`
	`41`	`+ // and crashed on Linux under Mono.`
`38`	`42`	`dtype = typeof(System.MulticastDelegate);`
`39`	`43`	`}`
`40`	`44`