ConditionalAttribute on Main()

Question

This is a question out of curiousity. I was messing around with some code, and realized that the following still compiles in release:

class Program
{
    [Conditional("DEBUG")]
    private static void Main()
    {
        // do stuff
    }
}

I thought ConditionalAttribute was supposed to wipe out the method, but it doesn't. What's special about the entry point?

Answer 1

I believe it wipes out the calls to the method, not the method itself. Main is never (or should never be) called from your code, so this won't change anything.