The .NET Metadata To PIR Translator Much data about .NET classes along with their fields and methods are stored in tables,
collectively known as metadata,
outside of the instruction stream.
A number of PMCs (documented in pmcs.pod) are used to access this metadata. 
Interface This subsystem represents itself as a single sub that takes a single parameter,
the filename of the EXE or DLL file with CLI metadata inside it that needs to be translated.
It returns the PIR of the translated file.
The sub is simply named "dotnet_to_pir".
pir = dotnet_to_pir(filename)
This is contained in the file "src/translator.pir".
Guts This section describes the internals of the metadata translator.
Flow
Assemblies, Classes, Fields and Methods
+----------------------------+
| dotnet_to_pir |
| (translator.pir) |
+------------||--------------+
||
_||_
\ /
+------------\/--------------+
| trans_class |
| (translator.pir) |
+------------||--------------+
||
==================================
|| ||
_||_ _||_
\ / \ /
+---------\/-----------+ +---------\/-----------+
| trans_field | | trans_method |
| (translator.pir) | | (method.pir) |
+----------------------+ +---------||-----------+
||
_||_
\ /
\/
See below
Method Translation Details
See above
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_||_
\ /
+------------\/--------------+
| trans_method |---------|\ Instruction
| (method.pir) |---------|/ Translator
+------------||--------------+
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==================================
|| ||
_||_ _||_
\ / \ /
+---------\/-----------+ +---------\/-----------+
| trans_method_params | | trans_method_locals |
| (method.pir) | | (method.pir) |
+---------||-----------+ +---------||-----------+
|| ||
_||_ _||_
\ / \ /
+---------\/-----------+ +---------\/-----------+
| get_signature_ | | get_signature_ |
| RetType_or_Param | | Local |
| (signature.pir) | | (signature.pir) |
+----------------------+ +----------------------+
