[MSIL] How to replace existing method by MSIL at runtime in CoreClr? #110934
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Hello all, Harmony package can support this feature, but I no idea to how implement. Ask for your help to tell me which knowledge I need to study, thanks. |
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Modifying running code is not supported. There is hot patching that can update running code, but it's debug only and has many limitations. Harmony itself doesn't do the patching. It only composes code blocks in to methods, and depends on MonoMod to replace methods. MonoMod's documentation contains some discussion about hooking methods. It requires to update process memory directly. It's generally unsupported, unreliable and can be broken by many factors, including security or anti-malware enhancement, CLR feature update or refactor. |
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Noted and thanks. Do you have any good reference (e.g. book, documentation) to study CoreCLR and MSIL? |
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Coreclr is still evolving. The best study material should be documentations and issues in this repo itself, to learn about existing and new features. |
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Modifying running code is not supported. There is hot patching that can update running code, but it's debug only and has many limitations.
Harmony itself doesn't do the patching. It only composes code blocks in to methods, and depends on MonoMod to replace methods.
MonoMod's documentation contains some discussion about hooking methods. It requires to update process memory directly. It's generally unsupported, unreliable and can be broken by many factors, including security or anti-malware enhancement, CLR feature update or refactor.