VB.NET CInt(Long) behaving differently in 32- and 64-bit environments
- by LocoDelAssembly
Hello everybody, this is my first message here.
Today I had a problem converting a Long (Int64) to an Integer (Int32). The problem is that my code was always working in 32-bit environments, but when I try THE SAME executable in a 64-bit computer it crashes with a System.OverflowException exception.
I've prepared this test code in VS2008 in a new project with default settings:
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim alpha As Long = -1
Dim delta As Integer
Try
delta = CInt(alpha And UInteger.MaxValue)
Console.WriteLine("CINT OK")
delta = Convert.ToInt32(alpha And UInteger.MaxValue)
Console.WriteLine("Convert.ToInt32 OK")
Catch ex As Exception
Console.WriteLine(ex.GetType().ToString())
Finally
Console.ReadLine()
End Try
End Sub
End Module
On my 32-bit setups (Windows XP SP3 32-bit and Windows 7 32-bit) it prints "CINT OK", but in the 64-bit computer (Windows 7 64-bit) that I've tested THE SAME executable it prints the exception name only.
Is this behavior documented? I tried to find a reference but failed miserably.
For reference I leave the MSIL code too:
.method public static void Main() cil managed
{
.entrypoint
.custom instance void [mscorlib]System.STAThreadAttribute::.ctor() = ( 01 00 00 00 )
// Code size 88 (0x58)
.maxstack 2
.locals init ([0] int64 alpha,
[1] int32 delta,
[2] class [mscorlib]System.Exception ex)
IL_0000: nop
IL_0001: ldc.i4.m1
IL_0002: conv.i8
IL_0003: stloc.0
IL_0004: nop
.try
{
.try
{
IL_0005: ldloc.0
IL_0006: ldc.i4.m1
IL_0007: conv.u8
IL_0008: and
IL_0009: conv.ovf.i4
IL_000a: stloc.1
IL_000b: ldstr "CINT OK"
IL_0010: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string)
IL_0015: nop
IL_0016: ldloc.0
IL_0017: ldc.i4.m1
IL_0018: conv.u8
IL_0019: and
IL_001a: call int32 [mscorlib]System.Convert::ToInt32(int64)
IL_001f: stloc.1
IL_0020: ldstr "Convert.ToInt32 OK"
IL_0025: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string)
IL_002a: nop
IL_002b: leave.s IL_0055
} // end .try
catch [mscorlib]System.Exception
{
IL_002d: dup
IL_002e: call void [Microsoft.VisualBasic]Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.ProjectData::SetProjectError(class [mscorlib]System.Exception)
IL_0033: stloc.2
IL_0034: nop
IL_0035: ldloc.2
IL_0036: callvirt instance class [mscorlib]System.Type [mscorlib]System.Exception::GetType()
IL_003b: callvirt instance string [mscorlib]System.Type::ToString()
IL_0040: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string)
IL_0045: nop
IL_0046: call void [Microsoft.VisualBasic]Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.ProjectData::ClearProjectError()
IL_004b: leave.s IL_0055
} // end handler
} // end .try
finally
{
IL_004d: nop
IL_004e: call string [mscorlib]System.Console::ReadLine()
IL_0053: pop
IL_0054: endfinally
} // end handler
IL_0055: nop
IL_0056: nop
IL_0057: ret
} // end of method Module1::Main
I suspect that the instruction that is behaving differently is either conv.ovf.i4 or the ldc.i4.m1/conv.u8 pair.
If you know what is going on here please let me know
Thanks
