Which Richter book are you talking about?
Daniel Perron wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was discussing about arrays in C# with
> some colleages and we started to look at
> the MSIL code generated for a simple
> inialization, for example:
>
> int [] a = { 3, 5, 7 };
>
> using ildasm. We realized that the MSIL
> code calls the funtion:
>
> System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers::InitializeArray(...)
>
> I wanted to see the code for InitializeArray(...)
> but it is declared "internalcall" so I thought
> I could find it somewhere in sscli code
> but the only thing I found was in the C# file
> for the corresponding class and it was declared
> extern.
>
> If clix can find it, it is somewhere. How do
> we go about finding the code for such a function,
> in general? Richter's book explain the meaning
> of the tokens used in the ildasm output and there
> is some code in the vm directory that seem to be
> relevant but what is the exact mapping?
>
> I was also trying to compare the code execution
> under rotor and standard CLI with cordbg. When
> you use rotor, the number of instructions executed
> for a statement, like the one above, as given with
> the wt command under cordbg is twice the number when
> run under the standard CLI. The standard CLI is
> suppose to use the same backend as the C++ compiler
> but is the rotor implementation of the Jiter so
> much slower?
>
> Some light would be appreciated.
>
> Daniel Perron
>
>
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