August 2005 - Posts

Blog about writing profiler stubs to interact with the 2.0 runtime.
11 August 05 12:52 PM | joshwil | 3 Comments   

Check out this blog entry ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jkeljo/archive/2005/08/11/450506.aspx ) to see some information that is rather interesting to people writing managed profilers, and probably not very interesting to everyone else. Read More...

BigArray<T>, getting around the 2GB array size limit
10 August 05 06:14 PM | joshwil | 14 Comments   

I’ve received a number of queries as to why the 64-bit version of the 2.0 .Net runtime still has array maximum sizes limited to 2GB. Given that it seems to be a hot topic of late I figured a little background and a discussion of the options to get around Read More...

Filed under: Writing code targeted at 64bit., 64bit CLR Implementation Goo

What is the difference in a P/Invoke signature between “byref byte” and “byte[]”?
10 August 05 06:11 PM | joshwil | 3 Comments   

Lately we’ve seen a spate of issues coming up on 64-bit platforms within the Developer Division around usages of P/Invoke signatures which declare a parameter as type “byref byte” where the developer really means “byte[]” (the corresponding native parameter Read More...

Filed under: Writing code targeted at 64bit., 64bit CLR Implementation Goo, Writing agnostic code.

Bit specific code in agnostic assemblies???
10 August 05 06:09 PM | joshwil | 7 Comments   

In previous blog entries I’ve spent some time talking about how to mark assemblies as bit specific and how the loader deals with those markings. What however is the preferred mode of an application? I will posit that it is to be compiled agnostic and Read More...

Filed under: Writing code targeted at 64bit., Writing agnostic code.