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UnmanagedCallersOnlyAttribute.CallConvs and CallConvSuppressGCTransition
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### Type of issue
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### Description
I find the documentation for `UnmanagedCallersOnlyAttribute.CallConvs` to be unintentionally misleading. It specifies that the valid values are `CallConv*` types. However, `CallConvSuppressGCTransition` is NOT valid value for the calling convention in this context - supressing GC transition is not allowed for reverse P/Invokes, which is the whole purpose of the `UnmanagedCallersOnlyAttribute` attribute. Moreover, the "See also" section specifically points to `CallConvSuppressGCTransition` documentation with a link to add to the confusion.
The documentation for `CallConvSuppressGCTransition` doesn't directly mention that it's only meant to be used for function pointers to unmanaged code. Instead it links to the description of the `SuppressGCTransition` attribute which lists the limitations for its use. Notably, I would be fine with the indirect link here if it was not for the documention of `UnmanagedCallersOnlyAttribute.CallConvs`. It's unreasonable to expect a documentation reader to go through two links and then read the remarks section to discover that some value combination is invalid.
### Page URL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.interopservices.unmanagedcallersonlyattribute.callconvs?view=net-9.0#system-runtime-interopservices-unmanagedcallersonlyattribute-callconvs
### Content source URL
https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System.Runtime.InteropServices/UnmanagedCallersOnlyAttribute.xml
### Document Version Independent Id
953bcf74-4793-6c98-5e89-c73dd0d748ff
### Platform Id
436c4c22-d112-467c-323f-85c5547d49db
### Article author
@dotnet-bot
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