
These are the sources to the Mono C# compiler 
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	Read the mcs/docs/compiler.txt for an overview of the compiler.

Testing the Compiler
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	You might want to use the `make btest' in this directory to 
	have the compiler bootstrap itself, this is the basic regression
	test.

	Before commiting changes to MCS, make sure that all the tests
	in `mcs/tests' pass, type:

	cd mcs/tests
	make run-test-local

	There is a new set of negative tests (errors that the compiler
	should flag), but not all of them pass currently:

	cd mcs/errors
	make run-test-local

Full Bootstrap
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	To finally ensure the state of the compiler, it is ideal to do
	a full bootstrap, to do this, do:

		cd mcs
		make clean;
		make
		make install

	That installs the compiler and assemblies compiled by the new compiler.

	Then, repeat that step again:

		make clean
		make

	If things work, the compiler has not added a new regression
	while building the mscorlib and the compiler itself.

Tests
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	When bugs are fixed, new tests must be added to the
	`mcs/tests' directory to excercise the problem and to guarantee
	that we keep the compiler in a good state.

	When an error is reported, it should be added to mcs/errors.

	We try to make the errors numbers be the same as the ones in
	Microsoft C#, if this is not possible, allocate a negative error
	number, and list it in mcs/errors/errors.txt
