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How to change the value of an argument at a breakpoint?

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Description

We've implemented an EE for our language basing it on the Iris example. When running and hitting a breakppoint, we can change values of globals and locals but not of method arguments. This is the IL code we generate for updating the second arg with some value:

.method public hidebysig instance void '$.M1'(string 'elUno', valuetype [mscorlib]System.Decimal 'elDos') cil managed
{
.locals init ([0] valuetype [mscorlib]System.Decimal '#cash', [1] string 'des@', [2] string 'des@ita', [3] valuetype [mscorlib]System.DateTime 'horaL', [4] valuetype [mscorlib]System.DateTime 'diaL', [5] valuetype [mscorlib]System.Decimal 'diaDec', [6] string 'diaStr', [7] valuetype [mscorlib]System.DateTime 'stamp')
ldc.i4 76543
ldc.i4.0
ldc.i4.0
ldc.i4 131072
newobj instance void [mscorlib]System.Decimal::.ctor(int32, int32, int32, int32)
starg.s 2
ret
}

but the value does not get changed in the program. Are we generating the right IL for it? What are we missing?

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Start by comparing the shown starg.s 2 sequence with the Iris example and inspect how the EE applies edits to method arguments at a breakpoint. Verify the argument slot and generated Decimal value; done when changing the second argument is reflected in the running program.

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