I am curious what the \"method body\" for typeof in C# would look like (pretty sure I can\'t get to it in reflector as it\'s a keyword not a method).
I am guessing i
If you do something like:
Type t = typeof(string);
Then the compiler compiles the typeof(string)
bit to a ldtoken MSIL instruction and then calls Type.GetTypeFromHandle to get an instance of the Type
class.
Type.GetTypeFromHandle
is implemented by the runtime (which is why it's marked with the "MethodImplOptions.InternalCall" attribute). You can look at the source code to mono for how it's actually implemented, but you basically have to understand the whole metadata system to understand how Type
and friends works internally...