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IL support by Compact CLR

Thu, April 19, 2007, 01:15 PM under MobileAndEmbedded
While chatting with users of a new .NET language that will RTM later this year (Vulcan.NET), I asked what they were doing for .NET Compact Framework support. They had most of it pretty much sussed. They understood that the tool support is the biggest hurdle since, at the end of the day, their language compiles down to IL so there should be no issues.

That last statement is true except the NETCF CLR only understands a (very rich) subset of the entire IL set. It doesn't support some niche opcodes mostly used by managed C++ (which the NETCF does not support). I promised I'd find the list of what is supported and what isn't. Dan from the NETCF team has posted such a table on his blog and even though it was written for v2.0 it still holds true for v3.5 of the NETCF. Check it out here.
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