WebCilFile builds raw native pointers into the memory-mapped view directly
from section-header fields read out of attacker-controlled metadata. Unlike
PEFile.GetSectionData, which delegates to the bounds-checked PEReader, this
hand-rolled path validated nothing: a crafted section header could produce a
SectionData (and hence a BlobReader) pointing far outside the view, an
out-of-bounds read reachable on normal decompilation through method-body and
field-data RVA resolution. The (int)RawDataSize narrowing cast could also
yield a negative length.
Resolve and bounds-check the raw-data range against the view length before
constructing SectionData, widening the arithmetic to long so crafted uint
fields cannot wrap the range check or narrow into an apparently valid length.
Structural parsing in FromFile now reports a crafted or truncated module as
"not a WebCIL file" (null) rather than letting EndOfStreamException,
OverflowException or BadImageFormatException escape the loader.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8:Claude Code
Backfills the standard MIT X11 header on hand-written files that never
got one, attributing each to its first-commit author and year from git
history. Code vendored from dotnet/runtime and Humanizr/Humanizer gets
its origin's license lines and a provenance note instead. Generated
files (Resources.Designer.cs, the version-info template), tool-managed
suppression files, and BAML test-case fixtures intentionally stay
header-less.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
New .cs files were inconsistently getting AlphaSierraPapa headers; the
convention is that new code carries the contributing human's copyright,
while existing headers (including vendored third-party ones) are never
rewritten and legacy header-less files stay as they are.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
The C# compiler lowers a foreach over an inline array into a for loop whose
body reads each element through <PrivateImplementationDetails>.InlineArrayElementRef(ref
buffer, i). That helper cannot be named in C#, so the decompiled for loop did
not compile.
Reconstruct the foreach at the AST level instead. Rewriting the unchecked
InlineArrayElementRef helper to the bounds-checked indexer buffer[i] would be
unsound for an out-of-bounds index, so the transform fires only when the loop
bound equals the inline array's length: that proves 0 <= i < length, matching
the exact shape the compiler emits and nothing else. A loop that does not match
keeps the faithful (if unnameable) helper call rather than silently gaining a
bounds check.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
A value-type constructor chains via 'this = new TSelf(...)', an ordinary
body statement, so a hoisted argument null-guard in front of it is legal
C# output as-is; folding it back only bought lifting the chain into a
this(...) initializer. That cosmetic gain does not justify the extra
stobj shape matching, so the guard now stays in the body for structs and
the gate reduces to the ChainedConstructorCallILOffset check.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
The loop-shape decision can use ILVariable use lists before AST lowering, so avoid creating a for-loop when its iterator updates a byref local that must remain usable after the loop.
Assisted-by: OpenAI:openai/gpt-5.5:OpenCode
Per @siegfriedpammer: rather than rescue the hoisted for-initializer in
DeclareVariables, don't form the for-loop at all. TransformFor now bails when the
loop variable is a by-ref-like local used after the loop, leaving the while-loop
(matching source); the ref decl keeps its initializer, no CS8174. Reverts the
DeclareVariables change; test now expects the while form.
Assisted-by: Copilot:claude-opus-4.8:GitHub Copilot CLI
A ref local that is used after a for-loop has its declaration hoisted in front of
the loop, but its only initialization is the for-initializer ref-assignment. The
declaration was then emitted without an initializer (`ref T x;`), which does not
compile (CS8174).
When a by-ref-like local's matching assignment is the first for-initializer, move
the ref-assignment's value up into the declaration (`ref T x = ref expr;`) and
drop the for-initializer.
Assisted-by: Copilot:claude-opus-4.8:GitHub Copilot CLI
A type's leading field assignments are extracted to field declarations
only when every constructor that does not chain with this() agrees on
them. When they disagree, the analyzer gave up on the whole type, so the
remaining constructors' this()/base() calls were never lifted into
initializers -- a struct with two divergent constructors plus a chaining
one rendered the chain as `this = new TSelf(...)` instead of `: this(...)`.
Chain lifting does not depend on the shared-initializer extraction, so a
mismatch now just skips the extraction (the assignments stay in the
bodies) and the transform continues. Primary constructors still bail,
since their parameters drive the initializers that must be extracted.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8:Claude Code
When a chained constructor-call argument contains a throwing null-check
(e.g. `value?.Length ?? throw ...`) and the argument is evaluated more
than once, the compiler hoists the null-check in front of the chained
call. The hoisted `if (value == null) throw ...;` then became the first
body statement, so MoveConstructorInitializer could not recognize the
chained call and left it as an illegal in-body `base..ctor(...)` /
`this..ctor(...)` (a parse error).
Fix it in the ILAst, where the `?? throw` shape already lives, rather
than re-deriving it on the C# AST: NullCoalescingTransform folds a guard
that directly precedes the chained call back into the first use of the
parameter as `if.notnull(ldloc param, throw)`. Nothing in a constructor
body can legally run before the chained call, so a statement preceding it
is necessarily compiler-hoisted; matching is by ILVariable identity, not
parameter name. The guard disappears before the AST transforms run, so
they need no change.
Reference types chain via a base/this..ctor CallInstruction; value types
chain via `this = new TSelf(...)`, i.e. stobj(ldthis, newobj TSelf(...)),
which ChainedConstructorCallILOffset does not report -- so the value-type
chain (including the case where this is spilled to a stack slot because
the guard sits between its load and the call) is matched directly.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8:Claude Code
LocalFunctionMethod.MemberDefinition returned the instance itself, so the
declaration of a generic local function (whose base method is an identity
specialization) and its use sites (whose base methods carry the use-site
substitutions) never compared equal, and click-highlighting could not group
them. Returning a wrapper around the unspecialized base method lets the
token writer record the same definition object for the declaration and all
use sites. Method-group references to local functions additionally need
their own lookup, because GetSymbol() does not surface a
MethodGroupResolveResult.
The token-writer tests now keep the PEFile alive for the duration of each
test: recorded references are type-system entities that lazily read from
the PE image, and formatting one in an assertion message after disposal
crashed with an AccessViolationException.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Textual assembly resources (JSON, XML, Markdown, plain text, ...) rendered
as an opaque byte count with only a Save button. Detect text vs binary from
the payload (size cap, BOM-aware decoding, strict UTF-8, rejecting control
characters) and pick a highlighting extension by resource-name extension,
falling back to content sniffing (angle-bracket for XML/HTML, an actual
JsonDocument parse for JSON) when the extension is unknown. Text renders as
the view's whole content with the matching highlighting; binary keeps the
byte-count-plus-Save presentation.
Container resources unpack their entries as raw byte arrays. Route those
through the same IResourceNodeFactory pipeline as top-level resources so a
nested .baml gets the BAML view, an image its viewer, and so on, instead of
the generic byte node; the .resources and !AvaloniaResources views also list
their entries by name. Register built-in AvaloniaEdit definitions (JSON,
Markdown, ...) with the theme manager on lookup so they follow the dark
theme like the bundled ones.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
For an async iterator with an [EnumeratorCancellation] cancellation token, the
hoisted-local cleanup (stfld <>u__N(this, null)) can be emitted before the
combined CancellationTokenSource disposal in the set-result and catch blocks.
CheckSetResultReturnBlock and ValidateCatchBlock only consumed that cleanup after
the disposal, so the `pos + 2 == count` test missed the dispose pattern and the
analysis failed, leaving the raw state machine (catch (object), goto case, ...).
Allow the cleanup to appear before the combined-tokens disposal as well.
Assisted-by: Copilot:claude-opus-4.8:GitHub Copilot CLI
UnscopedRef only appeared on a params parameter anywhere in the
suite; a ref-returning method and property on a ref struct pin the
attribute round-trip.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Static abstract interface members had no checked operator or
unsigned-right-shift coverage, and static abstract property getters
were never read as rvalues through the constraint.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Compound assignments selecting between op_Addition and
op_CheckedAddition across a checked block boundary were not
covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Generic attributes were only closed over simple types; constructed
generic, array, and enum type arguments exercise separate paths in
the custom-attribute blob decoder.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
SetsRequiredMembers had no coverage anywhere; required members
across a base/derived pair and in a generic abstract host were also
untested.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
readonly record struct had no coverage, and no record overrode a
synthesized member; user-declared ToString and PrintMembers pin the
synthesized-vs-user member detection.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Only two plain ASCII u8 literals were covered; the empty literal and
a literal made of escape sequences pin the recovery heuristic
boundaries.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
The C# 6 index-initializer syntax was only covered through custom
indexers; a real Dictionary<,> initialized with [key] = value pins
the choice between the index form and the Add form.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
ConfigureAwait(false) inside an async iterator and await foreach
over ConfiguredCancelableAsyncEnumerable were not covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Only interface-based disposal was covered; a using declaration over
a ref struct with a pattern-based Dispose exercises the recognition
heuristic without IDisposable.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
protected and protected internal default interface members, static
properties and field-like events in interfaces, and a generic
interface with a constrained generic default method were not
covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
The fixture had an iterator local function but no async local
function; the async state-machine-in-local-function shape, static
and capturing, was not covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
await inside a null-coalescing expression, as a do-while condition,
on a ValueTask, and inside an interpolated-string hole (the
DefaultInterpolatedStringHandler lowering) were not covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
dynamic used as a while-loop condition and the null-conditional
invocation operator on a dynamic receiver were not covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
AddChecked/MultiplyChecked/ConvertChecked nodes were not covered;
they are pretty-printed as a checked block around the tree-building
calls.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Only group-by continuations were covered; a continuation introduced
by select-into exercises a different transparent-identifier reset.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Virtual/override/sealed-override auto-properties, implicit and
explicit interface implementations, asymmetric accessor
accessibility, and auto-properties in structs were not covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Anonymous types nested as members of other anonymous types (and read
back through the projection), ToString on an anonymous instance, and
explicit member projections were not covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
The lifted-operator matrix only used pure expressions; compound
assignment on nullable locals and boxing/unboxing conversions of
Nullable<T> were not covered.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
All iterator producers in the fixture used concrete element types;
a generic method pins the reconstruction of the generic state
machine type.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Generic co-/contravariance had no test coverage at all: no out/in
variance modifier on any interface or delegate declaration and no
variant reference conversion appeared anywhere in the test suite.
The new fixture pins declarations (including a constrained covariant
interface and an explicit implementation of a variant interface) and
conversion shapes that must not produce explicit casts.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
All existing filter tests only read state; a filter that mutates a
ref local observed by the handler pins the ordering between the
filter expression and the handler body.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Pins the reconstruction of a continue statement in a catch block
inside a foreach loop, which used to decompile to a goto targeting
a label at the end of the loop body. #2829 reported the goto form
and can be closed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
The UnsafeCode fixture had no double-indirection coverage at all:
no pointer-to-pointer loads, stores, or indexing, and no fixed
statement over an element of a pointer array.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
The Documentation namespace (XmlDocumentationProvider, IdStringProvider,
XmlDocLoader) had no test coverage at all, even though XmlDoc is listed
as an implemented C# 1 feature on the wiki Language-Feature-Roadmap.
These tests pin ID-string generation and FindEntity round-trips for the
intricate encodings (nested generic types, `0/``0 type-parameter
references, ref/out @ suffixes, pointer and jagged/multi-dimensional
array forms incl. [0:,0:], conversion operators with the ~ReturnType
suffix, indexers, #ctor) plus XmlDocumentationProvider lookup by ID
string and by entity against a generated doc file. All green.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Doc-comment folds were created with defaultCollapsed hardcoded to true,
so /// blocks always started collapsed. The new Display option is
bridged into DecompilerSettings like the other expand flags and drives
the fold's default state.
Detecting the last line of a doc-comment block requires sibling
navigation between trivia nodes, so trivia now carry parent, sibling
list, and index state. That state lives on the Trivia subclass to keep
AstNode's size unchanged, and the tree API treats trivia as a separate
navigation space: Next/PrevSibling and Remove work within the owning
list, Slot is null, ReplaceWith throws instead of aliasing the trivia
index into the parent's child slots, GetNextNode/GetPrevNode stop at
the list boundary, Clone and CopyAnnotationsFrom deep-copy and reparent
trivia, and CheckInvariant validates the trivia lists.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
AvaloniaEdit 12's TextView.InvalidateLayer only invalidates the TextView's
measure and never re-renders the per-layer child visuals, so the caret layer
repaints only on caret blinks (focused editor) or scroll changes. During
debug-step navigation focus stays in the Debug Steps panel, so the one scroll
repaint painted an early animation frame and nothing ever erased it: the frame
stayed composited as a caret-sized black line fixed in the viewport. The
adorner now invalidates the layer visuals itself on start, every animation
frame, and dismissal, and keeps its rectangles in document coordinates so the
deferred centering scroll cannot strand the highlight at a stale viewport
position.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Local OpenSSL defaults can reject legacy SHA-1 signatures during dotnet operations. Set the required compatibility flag inside the repository scripts so restore, build, publish, clean, and formatting paths do not depend on each caller's shell environment.
Assisted-by: OpenCode:openai/gpt-5.5:OpenCode
Browsing an embedded .baml resource runs it through BamlReader.ReadDocument,
whose post-parse defer pass walks the record list with NavigateTree. That walk
recursed on every nested StaticResourceStart/KeyElementStart record with no
depth cap and indexed the record list with no bound. A crafted resource could
therefore drive recursion into a StackOverflowException -- which is uncatchable
and kills the process despite the resource node's try/catch -- or walk the index
off the end of the list. Both are reachable from ordinary resource browsing, no
project export required.
Consolidate the duplicated defer walk into one bounded, depth-capped helper that
fails with a catchable InvalidDataException, so the existing UI catch turns a
malformed resource into a "BAML decompilation failed" message instead of a crash.
Reject an oversized signature length before it drives a multi-gigabyte allocation
(it is read before the MSBAML check), and resolve defer offsets with TryGetValue
so a bogus offset reports malformed data rather than escaping as a bare
KeyNotFoundException.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8:Claude Code
Avalonia apps pack every resource (compiled XAML, image/SVG assets, ...)
behind a single !AvaloniaResources manifest blob, which until now fell
through to the generic resource node and could not be browsed. Parse the
blob's index and expose each packed file as its own entry, mirroring how
.resources files are unpacked, so individual files can be viewed and
saved. The reader is bounds-checked against crafted offsets/sizes in the
same defensive spirit as the recent .rsrc parsing guards.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8:Claude Code
Reduce nested generation routines by moving constructor, child-dispatch, slot, and slot-kind emission into focused helpers. This keeps generator behavior intact while making the source-generator control flow easier to review and maintain.
Assisted-by: OpenCode:openai/gpt-5.5:OpenCode
The step recorder is shared by C# AST and ILAst replay, so keep the public infrastructure out of IL.Transforms and pass language-specific node navigation through neutral node metadata.
Assisted-by: OpenCode:openai/gpt-5.5:OpenCode
The IL (Stepper) and C# (TransformContext) paths each recorded the changed
node, its seam neighbours, and its ancestor chain with duplicated logic that
could drift. Move the ordering/dedup/seam strategy onto
Stepper.Node.RecordModifiedNode; each language keeps only its own node
navigation.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8:Claude Code
Keep the IsUnsafe visitor path context-free while avoiding repeated null guards around debug-step recording in the unsafe modifier transform.
Assisted-by: OpenCode:openai/gpt-5.5:OpenCode
Christoph Wille
Siegfried Pammer
Sebastien Lebreton