[mono-cecil] AssemblyDefinition.ReadAssembly fails: The type initializer for 'Mono.Cecil.Metadata.TableHeap' threw an exception.

[ShdNx]

Hey,

I'm trying to read a small test assembly using
AssemblyDefinition.ReadAssembly, and I get the following exception:

System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for
'Mono.Cecil.Metadata.TableHeap' threw an exception.
   at Mono.Cecil.Metadata.TableHeap..ctor(Section section, UInt32
start, UInt32 size)
   at Mono.Cecil.PE.ImageReader.ReadMetadataStream(Section section)
   at Mono.Cecil.PE.ImageReader.ReadMetadata()
   at Mono.Cecil.PE.ImageReader.ReadImage()
   at Mono.Cecil.PE.ImageReader.ReadImageFrom(Stream stream)
   at Mono.Cecil.ModuleDefinition.ReadModule(Stream stream,
ReaderParameters parameters)
   at Mono.Cecil.ModuleDefinition.ReadModule(String fileName,
ReaderParameters parameters)
   at Mono.Cecil.ModuleDefinition.ReadModule(String fileName)
   at Mono.Cecil.AssemblyDefinition.ReadAssembly(String fileName)
   at MyProgram.Main(String[] args) in C:\Dev\...\Program.cs:line 44
   at System.AppDomain._nExecuteAssembly(RuntimeAssembly assembly,
String[] args)
   at System.AppDomain.nExecuteAssembly(RuntimeAssembly assembly,
String[] args)
   at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(String assemblyFile, Evidence
assemblySecurity, String[] args)
   at
Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUsersAssembly()
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext
executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean
ignoreSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext
executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

Here is the InnerException:

System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected
range.
   at
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.InitializeArray(Array
array, RuntimeFieldHandle fldHandle)
   at Mono.Cecil.Metadata.TableHeap..cctor()

The test assembly I'm trying to load is a tiny .NET 4 console
application, here is the complete source code:

class Program
{
    [Cached]
    private static string _SomeExpensiveMethod()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Expensive operation...");
        return "stuff";
    }

    [Cached]
    private static StringBuilder _GetBuilder()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Creating builder...");
        return new StringBuilder();
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string r1 = _SomeExpensiveMethod();
        Console.WriteLine("Res: " + r1);
        string r2 = _SomeExpensiveMethod();
        Console.WriteLine("Res: " + r2);

        _GetBuilder();
        _GetBuilder();

        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}

The only thing worth mentioning are the CachedAttributes: they are
custom attributes from a project-referenced assembly.
What is interesting is that when I try to run my application in the
post-build event of the test project above, it works fine - I get the
error when I start the application directly. At first I thought that
it was some issue with relative paths, but the paths are relative in
the post-build event as well.

I have also seen this exception earlier when trying to open an
obfuscated assembly (my test assembly is NOT obfuscated), but I
thought it was because of the obfuscation. Now I'm not so sure.

Mono.Cecil version 0.9.4.0, binaries only. I could download the source
code, but that would mean installing git, which I'd never use
afterwards, and I hate having programs lying around.

Any hints?
Thank you very much in advance! And thanks for this great library!

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