src/mscorlib/src/System/Runtime/CompilerServices/IsImplicitlyDereferenced.cs


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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices
{
    // Consider the following C++ method prototypes:
    // 1) int foo(int ^arg);
    // 2) int foo(int &arg);
    //
    // Both of these methods will have a .NET type signature that looks the
    // same, but when importing a method from a metadata scope, the compiler 
    // needs to know what the calling syntax should be.  This modopt and its 
    // partner "IsExplicitlyDereferenced" disambiguate reference versus
    // pointer arguments.
    //
    // Indicates that the modified GC reference represents a reference in a
    // method signature.
    public static class IsImplicitlyDereferenced
    {
    }
}