[Mono-dev] Mixed Mode Assemblies

[Robert Jordan]

Hi Tom!

On 20.07.2011 18:02, Tom Spink wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Since it's only 3.5k tarred up, I've attached it to this email - I hope
> that's not too rude!
>
> Let me know what you think!  And don't give me a hard time for some of the
> hacks ;)

I'm quoting from the TODO:

> * Automate DLL_NAME to pull it from somewhere.

We could store the necessary runtime version and the assembly
name in the generated C++ stub, then use mono_jit_init_version
for initialization.

> * Rewrite each stub after first call to call the function pointer
>   proper, and hence bypass the NULL test.

I'm biased whether this is necessary altogether.

Is it a burden for the SO user if we'd require a first call
of an provided initialization function?

This function could be even called automatically, unless
we really want to postpone mono's initialization.

> * Think about multiple loaded assemblies, and the impact that will have
>   on loading the runtime/appdomain twice.

Maybe we should propose a mono_jit_is_initialized() for libmono,
unless there is already a way to detect this, that we're not aware of.

> * Think about multi-threading, and how to invoke mono_thread_attach.

IIRC, when I wrote the thunk support, I've reused a method
wrapper type that already performs mono_thread_attach()
on managed/unmanaged boundaries. I even wanted to introduce a
new wrapper type to get rid of mono_thread_attach() for performance
reasons, but never did it.

Robert