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Fix delegates closed over null in Mono#126285

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Copilot AI commented Mar 29, 2026

  • Investigate root cause: closed_over_null wrapper embeds direct CALL to target method, can't be pre-compiled by AOT
  • Fix emit_delegate_invoke_internal_ilgen in marshal-lightweight.c to use indirect call through method_ptr for closed_over_null instead of direct CALL, so the wrapper can be AOT-compiled
  • Add new WRAPPER_SUBTYPE_DELEGATE_INVOKE_CLOSED_OVER_NULL subtype for separate caching and AOT encoding/decoding
  • Add closed_over_null parameter to mono_marshal_get_delegate_invoke_internal and update all callers
  • Fix the AOT compiler (aot-compiler.c) to also pre-compile closed_over_null variant for all delegate types
  • Fix AOT runtime decoder to handle the new subtype
  • Fix cache separation for closed_over_null vs regular callvirt wrappers in marshal.c
  • Revert the ConditionalFact skip in DelegateTests.cs — tests should pass after the fix
  • Build Mono+libs — passes
  • Run delegate tests — 44/44 pass (including closed-over-null tests)
  • Code review — no blocking issues
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Fix closed_over_null computation in mono_marshal_get_delegate_invoke_internal
by comparing invoke sig param count with actual target method param count
directly, rather than via the stripped signature which underflows when the
invoke sig has 0 params.

Fix MINT_CALL_DELEGATE in the interpreter to handle closed-over-null case
where an instance method is bound with null this, instead of incorrectly
falling through to the static-call memmove path.

Add regression tests for CreateDelegate closed over null.

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Fix delegates closed over null issue in Mono Fix delegates closed over null in Mono Mar 29, 2026
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@copilot investigate the failures in the new tests

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Copilot AI commented Mar 30, 2026

@copilot investigate the failures in the new tests

The new delegate tests (CreateDelegate_ClosedOverNull_InstanceMethod and CreateDelegate_ClosedOverNull_InstanceMethodViaMethodInfoCreateDelegate) are passing on all platforms in CI:

  • ✅ Mono JIT (osx-x64, linux-x64, linux-arm64)
  • ✅ Mono Interpreter (linux-x64)
  • ✅ CoreCLR (osx-arm64, osx-x64, windows-x64, linux-x64, linux_musl-x64, linux-arm64, windows-x86)

The only CI failures are in System.Runtime.Numerics.Tests on browser-wasm — a completely different test suite, tracked by known issue #117974. Those failures are not related to this PR (no correlation with changed files, and the failing test suite is System.Runtime.Numerics.Tests, not System.Runtime.Tests where the new delegate tests live).

The 3 cancelled jobs (CoreCLR windows x64/x86 Debug/Release, browser-wasm windows LibraryTests) were dependency-cancelled due to the unrelated wasm failures.

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