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A comment on Strings and the CLR – A Special Relationship.

Re:Strings and the CLR – A Special Relationship by ed_blackburn on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:04AM (#11821193)
This makes me wonder..

Can one extend the CLR (modulalary) and access via: extern and [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]?

Native UTF-8 is an obvious example but the scope could be far greater in scope such as native interop for a hardware device (IoT), funky filesystems or hypervisors?

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Re:Strings and the CLR – A Special Relationship by matthewwarren on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:13AM (#11821618)
Good question, I don't know how much (if at all) it can be extended.

Those [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)] calls are still within the CoreCLR codebase, they're just from the managed part -> un-managed part.

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