Binary serialization of Enums on iOS

So I'm trying to serialize some data including enums on iOS, but I keep hitting a wall. Here's the offending code:

 public class GameData : ISerializable
 {
     public enum Rank
     {
        OneStar,
        TwoStar,
        ThreeStar,
        FourStar
     };
     public Rank[] ranks;

     public GameData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctx)
     {
         ranks = (Rank[]) info.GetValue("ranks", typeof(Rank[]));
     }
     public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctx)
     {
         info.AddValue("ranks", ranks, typeof(Rank[]));
     }
 }

Seems like it should be pretty cut-and-dry, no? Not so fast! Mono relies on JIT compilation to serialize Enums, and iOS WILL NOT JIT! I get this error while trying to serialize an instance of GameData:

 System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.ExecutionEngineException: Attempting to JIT compile method 'Rank__TypeMetadata:.ctor ()' while running with --aot-only.

Okay, to me this suggests two possible workarounds.

1. Specify the typemetadata constructor statically so that it doesn't need to be JIT compiled

2. Don't serialize enums.

Problem with option 1 is that using TypeMetadata seems to be rather poorly documented. It is certainly possible, but I haven't the slightest idea how to do it.

Problem with option 2 is... well it just plain doesn't make a difference for some reason. Have a look at the modified code:

     public GameData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctx)
     {
         int[] int_ranks = (int[]) info.GetValue("ranks", typeof(int[]));
         ranks = (Rank[]) int_ranks.Cast<Rank>();
     }
     public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctx)
     {
         int[] int_ranks = (int[]) ranks.Cast<int>();
         info.AddValue("ranks", int_ranks, typeof(int[]));
     }

...and here's the accompanying error:

 System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.ExecutionEngineException: Attempting to JIT compile method 'Rank__TypeMetadata:.ctor ()' while running with --aot-only.

In case you're wondering, yes, this is the same error as before. Why does MonoTouch think I'm still trying to serialize Ranks?! I'm quite clearly serializing ints!