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Adds the baseline reading layer for F# hot reload: a standalone PE/metadata/portable PDB reader (ILBaselineReader) for the heap sizes, row counts, MVID, and token tables an Edit and Continue generation chains from, plus HotReloadBaseline state construction: token maps, reconstruction of synthesized-name snapshots from the binary, reading EnC method CustomDebugInformation, and closure-name table reconstruction from those rows.

It also adds the recorded synthesized-name snapshot: a module-level CustomDebugInformation record (kind 49DDB47E-9C74-46EC-8626-0350676571EB) whose payload is the compiler's name map in allocation-slot order, with a deterministic codec (buckets sorted by key, names kept in slot order, no paths or timestamps). Reading prefers the recorded snapshot and falls back to reconstruction only when the record is missing or invalid; this is what makes "small IL diff for small source diff" work, since slot layout is not inferable from IL enumeration order in general. Ordinary compiles emit no module rows and are unaffected.

Trust rules fail closed: a recorded snapshot is used only when exactly one valid row is present; closure-name reconstruction requires generation zero and matching type names, otherwise it yields an empty map and the session layer treats the edit as rude.

Tests: 22 covering the codec roundtrip (including mixed replay/occurrence buckets), module CDI read/write through the in-memory PDB writer, baseline token maps, recorded versus reconstructed selection and fallback, and closure-name reconstruction. SurfaceAreaTest green; everything internal.

Stacked PR: based on #20018 (CDI codec) and #20024 (name replay map); the diff shows their commits until they merge. The commits that belong to this PR, each viewable as a single diff:

Everything else in the commit list arrives from the dependency PRs via merges.

Sequencing

This PR is part of splitting the F# hot reload work (#19941) into small, independently reviewable PRs. The planned order:

  1. Wave 1 (independent): Add ResetCompilerGeneratedNameState to compiler-generated name generators #20017, Add Roslyn-format EnC CustomDebugInformation codec and portable PDB method CDI emission #20018, Add ECMA-335 EnC metadata delta writer #20019, Add stable synthesized-name replay infrastructure for hot reload #20024, Add typed-tree differ and edit classification for hot reload #20025.
  2. Wave 2 (this PR): baseline reading and recorded EnC state, on top of Add Roslyn-format EnC CustomDebugInformation codec and portable PDB method CDI emission #20018 and Add stable synthesized-name replay infrastructure for hot reload #20024.
  3. Wave 3: the delta emitter and symbol matcher.
  4. Wave 4: the hot reload session, FCS surface, and the --test:HotReloadDeltas capture hook (F# hot reload: Edit-and-Continue delta emission behind --test:HotReloadDeltas #19941 in its final, much smaller form).
  5. Last, explicitly experimental: Add an experimental flag-gated in-process compile path for hot reload sessions #20031 (the flag-gated in-process compile perf path).

Role in the train: the delta emitter (wave 3) matches fresh compiles against this baseline state; the session (wave 4) constructs it at startup from the on-disk assembly and PDB.

NatElkins added 5 commits July 2, 2026 17:51
…ethod CDI emission

Adds an internal AbstractIL module implementing, byte for byte, the three Portable PDB
CustomDebugInformation blob formats Roslyn persists per method for Edit and Continue
(EnC Local Slot Map, EnC Lambda and Closure Map, EnC State Machine State Map), with
serializers, deserializers, a portable PDB read-back helper, and an occurrence-key
packing helper for deterministic syntax-offset slots.

Plumbs an optional methodCustomDebugInfoRows side channel through the IL binary writer
options into the portable PDB generator so a compilation can attach CDI rows to named
methods. Names that do not identify exactly one method row are dropped. All existing
writer call sites pass an empty map, so emitted PDBs are byte-identical to before.

No in-tree caller populates the map yet; the consumer is the F# hot reload work in
dotnet#19941, following the same pattern as dotnet#20017 (land isolated, test-covered
infrastructure first, wire the feature later).

Tests: blob round-trips, Roslyn golden-byte encodings, cross-validation against
CDI blobs emitted by a real Roslyn compilation, fail-closed occurrence-key packing
(including an int32-overflow regression where a wrapped negative key previously
escaped the bound check), and end-to-end synthetic PDB emission proving correct
MethodDef parenting, zero rows for an empty map, and no rows for absent or
ambiguous names.
ProcessStartInfo.ArgumentList does not exist on net472, which the component tests
also target on Windows CI. Build the quoted argument string by hand instead.
xunit 3.2.2 no longer discovers internal test classes, so the module was
silently skipped after rebasing onto current main (pre-existing internal test
modules like CompilerService.Caches are likewise undiscovered there). Public
visibility restores discovery; 17 tests run and pass.
Add internal generated-name normalization and synthesized-name map replay support as a standalone slice. The new map state is side-channel based, all new compiler modules remain internal, and CompilerGlobalState preserves the existing no-map counter path while checking an accessor captured once per compiler state.

Route existing IlxGen generated-name allocations through inert helper wrappers, add pure name-map and normalizer tests, add a normal compilation determinism guard over emitted generated names, and document the extracted seams in P5_REPORT.md.

Verification: built FSharp.Compiler.Service, FSharp.Compiler.Service.Tests, FSharp.Compiler.ComponentTests, and FSharpSuite.Tests in Release; ran the migrated service test classes, the component determinism class, FSharpSuite DeterministicTests, and the FCS SurfaceArea class successfully.
Add standalone baseline PE and portable PDB readers for hot reload, including token maps and MVID/PDB table snapshots.

Carry the F# synthesized-name snapshot module CDI codec and portable PDB read path, with recorded snapshots taking precedence over IL reconstruction.

Add focused component tests for snapshot round-trip, direct module CDI reading, baseline token maps, recorded fallback behavior, and EnC closure-name reconstruction.
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NatElkins added 3 commits July 3, 2026 08:50
…CI images

The Roslyn cross-validation test shells out to dotnet build to produce a
real Roslyn PDB. The process launch had two problems. It computed the
host path by hand from __SOURCE_DIRECTORY__, which misses on CI images
that carry no repo-local .dotnet at that depth, failing with
Win32Exception before the build starts. It also left UseShellExecute at
its default, which is true on net472 and rejects redirected streams, so
every Desktop test leg failed deterministically with
InvalidOperationException.

Resolve the host like the rest of the test framework via
TestFramework.initialConfig.DotNetExe, which prefers the repo-local
.dotnet and falls back to PATH, and set UseShellExecute to false
explicitly.

Verified: FSharp.Compiler.ComponentTests builds clean;
EncMethodDebugInformationTests 17 passed, 0 failed (net10.0); fantomas
clean on the touched file.
…erload

CI compiles the snapshot round-trip and baseline reader tests with
FS0193: the explicit Assert.Equal<string> type application commits
overload resolution to the scalar Equal(T, T) shape while both
arguments are string arrays. Use Assert.Equal<string[]>, the form the
neighboring name-map tests already use, so resolution lands on the
structural array comparison everywhere.

Verified: FSharp.Compiler.ComponentTests builds clean;
EncMethodDebugInformationTests 22 passed, 0 failed (net10.0); fantomas
clean on the touched file.
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