Ensure Array.CreateInstance over reference types works #100626
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We have warning suppressions in place assuming
Array.CreateInstancewill succeed if it's over reference types, same asMakeGeneric. There's however no analysis to ensure we have the type loader template for__Canon[]. This adds the analysis.The
reflection\GenericAttributetest is currently failing because of this but we don't see it because it's marked RequiresProcessIsolation and we have a bug that we don't look at those tests at all.We had this bug for a while, but the test regression is more recent because we're getting better at not generating useless stuff. Template for
__Canon[]is probably part of any bigger test because it's common.cc @dotnet/ilc-contrib