Category: CLR

"Stubs" in the .NET Runtime

As the saying goes: “All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection” – David Wheeler

What is ‘stack walking’, well as always the ‘Book of the Runtime’ (BotR) helps us, from the relevant page: The

It seems like this time of year anyone with a blog is doing some sort of ‘advent calendar’, i.e. 24

Recently I was fortunate enough to chat with Chris Bacon who wrote DotNetAnywhere (an alternative .NET Runtime) and I quipped

I recently came across the excellent ‘Fuzzlyn’ project, created as part of the ‘Language-Based Security’ course at Aarhus University. As

.NET is a managed runtime, which means that it provides high-level features that ‘manage’ your program for you, from Introduction

I’m constantly surprised at just how popular resources related to ‘.NET Internals’ are, for instance take this tweet and the

I’ve been digging into .NET Internals for a while now, but never really looked closely at how the ‘Just-in-Time’ (JIT)

Whether you want to look at what your code is doing ‘under-the-hood’ or you’re trying to see what the ‘internals’

Firstly, what exactly is CoreRT? From its GitHub repo: .. a .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT (ahead of time