Mono Runtime Documentation

Mono Runtime Developer Documentation

This page currently contains links to the wiki-fied version of the runtime documentation, the original versions are available from GIT. Hopefully it will become more organized in the future.

• Thread safety/Synchronization
• Memory management
• Generics
• Ahead of Time Compilation (AOT)
• Exception handling
• Register allocation in the JIT
• JIT Intermediate Representation
• Generic Sharing
• Generic sharing for valuetypes
• Trampolines
• Bitcode
• Porting the Engine
• Soft Debugger
• LLVM Backend
• GDB Debugging Support (XDEBUG)
• Atomics and Memory Model
• Other topics
• Glossary

RFCs

• ASCII strings proposal

Runtime guidelines

The following describe guidelines for specific areas of the runtime

• Error handling/MonoError

The following describe how to handle cooperative thread suspension within the runtime

• Cooperative suspend

Additionally, Jambunathan K has a very interesting blog that talks about Mono Runtime Notes.

For information on project planning see Runtime_Projects.

For runtime hacking see Runtime Hacking.