NativeAOT without debugger support, screen-reader row names, rule 14 over names by donislawdev · Pull Request #50 · donislawdev/ChronoMock

donislawdev · 2026-09-23T19:14:28Z

Three slices in one pull request, one commit each.

1. NativeAOT built with debugger support off gets the .NET caution (`pe.rs`)

A NativeAOT executable published with DebuggerSupport=false exports nothing, so the export-based mark missed it and it got no runtime.dotnet_stopwatch_qpc.

New mark: the module header the NativeAOT runtime starts from (ReadyToRunHeader, signature RTR\0, read from ModuleHeaders.h and TypeManager.cpp in dotnet/runtime), searched in sections that do not execute.
The version is not read (8, 9, 10, 16 and 29 from .NET 7 to the development branch) and the row size is not pinned (24 bytes on x64 up to .NET 10, 16 after). Every row must carry a runtime section id in 200-399 and a start pointer inside the image - true since .NET 7.
Cost: the search walks whole sections, so it runs only behind an export directory that names nothing. NativeAOT always links with a .def file, and on the measuring machine 63 of 6 904 executables had such a directory, mostly small ones. It reads in 1 MiB windows with a 256 MiB budget.
Named gap: a NativeAOT build with debugger support off that also exports functions of its own is not searched and stays unrecognised (CHANGELOG says so).
Measured: a valid header in both .NET 10 NativeAOT builds (with and without debugger support) and in none of 17 other binaries (Go x64/x86, Rust x64/x86, C, Node, Deno, Python, Java, Windows binaries, .NET apphosts - the self-contained single file has 94 raw RTR hits and none passes the row check). Live dry run: the build without debugger support now gets the caution. Rust and Node do not, and Go keeps its own.

2. Screen readers read list rows as what they show (GUI)

WPF names a list row from its container, and a plain ContentPresenter answers with its content's ToString(). Our rows hold translation keys and records, so the warnings read as runtime.dotnet_stopwatch_qpc and audit rows as AuditRow { Channel = ... }. Measured on the rendered screens: 87 rows on nine lists (audit, process and engine tables, warnings, cleanup, speed and jump buttons).

TextNamedList / TextNamedItems replace every HeaderedItemsControl / ItemsControl in the views. Their row container TextNamedRow names itself by the text the row shows, read when assistive tech asks, so the name cannot drift from the template and follows live counts.
Inputs give what they hold (a calculator step reads "Shift ±, +, 1, days"), and a button counts only when the row has nothing else to say (a format row reads "ISO date, 2026-09-23", not "..., Copy").
Reading a name must not touch what it reads: the first version used the Inlines getter, which converts a plain TextBlock to complex content, and live UI Automation showed a row with an empty cell naming itself "" on the first query. Runs are now read as logical children.
Guards: ItemPeerNameTests (effect - peer names on rendered screens and the catalogue), a shape test in ItemNameGuardTests (no bare items control in the XAML - the calculator's lists have no data in the render fixture), and a catalogue test in XamlResourceKeyTests. The catalogue showed chromium.interval_queued_before_change, a key that never existed, and it is replaced by the real chromium.rate_change_affects_running_timers.
The render is unchanged (layout guards green, the state sheet looked at).

3. Rule 14 over names, `#` comments, invisible characters (`hygiene.rs`)

Names: a small lexer for Rust and C#. It skips comments, nested block comments, raw, byte and verbatim strings, interpolated strings with quotes inside their holes, raw C# strings and char literals, and it tells lifetimes from chars. It also reads XAML x:Name / x:Key. Every name is split into words and checked for Polish letters and against a vocabulary built from the repository's own Polish translations (GUI strings and site) minus the English ones, plus a hand list. 117 002 names against 2 662 words today, no hits. ALSO_ENGLISH holds the two English words that met a real name (problem, stale).
Comments: the language scan now reads # comments in ps1, yml and toml. It only knew // and <!-- before. Running the vocabulary over comments once found a real Polish phrase in a doc comment of cdp/mod.rs, which is translated. Its two words join the hand list.
Invisible characters: no committed text file may carry a private-use, zero-width or byte order mark character. One reached TextNamedRow.cs during this work: escapes written by a tool were decoded into the characters themselves, and it compiled and passed every test.

Verification

Reversal probes, each one change in its own run, each red on its own assertion: 8 on the NativeAOT mark, 4 on the GUI names, 8 on the name and comment scans, 2 on invisible characters. One more live probe: the Inlines read gives 2 of 49 catalogue rows an empty first read, and the fix gives 0.
gates.ps1 13/13. test-rust 536, test-cs 639. The native core is untouched, so the harness was not run.

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New Features
- .NET executable detection now recognizes additional NativeAOT applications and the dotnet host, including cases without debug support when they have no named exports.
Bug Fixes
- Audit tables and other lists now expose their displayed row content to assistive technologies, rather than underlying code or field names.

A NativeAOT executable published with DebuggerSupport=false exports nothing, so the export-based mark missed it and it got no .NET timing caution. pe.rs now also looks for the module header the NativeAOT runtime starts from (ReadyToRunHeader, signature "RTR" and a zero byte), in the sections that do not execute. The version is not read - it has been 8, 9, 10, 16 and 29 across releases, and the row size changed too - but every row must carry a runtime section id (200 to 399) and a start pointer inside the image, which has held since .NET 7. The search walks whole sections, so it runs only behind an export directory that names nothing, which is how a NativeAOT build links (a .def file is always passed) and which is rare elsewhere. It reads in 1 MiB windows with a 256 MiB budget. A NativeAOT build that also exports functions of its own is not searched and stays unrecognised. The report's note about what it cannot catch still listed the framework-dependent single file, recognised since #49, and is corrected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

WPF names a list row from its container, and a plain ContentPresenter answers with its content's ToString(). The rows here hold translation keys and records, so a screen reader read a warning as its key and an audit row as a dump of its fields - 87 rows on nine lists, measured on the rendered screens. Every item list is now a TextNamedList or TextNamedItems, whose row container, TextNamedRow, names itself by the text the row shows, read when assistive tech asks. Inputs give what they hold, a button counts only when the row has nothing else to say, and reading a name never touches the text it reads: the Inlines getter did, and a row with an empty cell named itself "" on the first query (measured live). Guards: ItemPeerNameTests checks the names on the rendered screens and the catalogue, ItemNameGuardTests forbids the bare items controls in the XAML, and XamlResourceKeyTests checks that the catalogue's sample keys exist - one of them never did, and is replaced by the real one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Untouchable rule 14 had no guard over names: Polish identifiers went into test code with every gate green. The name scan lexes Rust and C# (comments and every kind of literal skipped) and reads the x:Name and x:Key values of the XAML, splits each name into words, and checks them for Polish letters and against a vocabulary built from the repository's own Polish translations minus the English ones, plus a hand list. The comment scan now reads the # comments of ps1, yml and toml files, which it never did. A new scan refuses characters nobody can see (private use, zero width, a byte order mark), after one reached a C# file this way. A Polish phrase left in a doc comment of cdp/mod.rs is translated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The CLI adds bounded NativeAOT image detection. The GUI adds item controls that expose displayed row content through automation names. Repository hygiene tests add comment, identifier, and invisible-character checks.

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NativeAOT PE Detection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
PE metadata and scan bounds `crates/cli/src/pe.rs`	The PE parser records section characteristics and image bounds. It defines NativeAOT signatures and bounded scan limits.
NativeAOT header probe `crates/cli/src/pe.rs`	The .NET executable check searches non-executable sections only when the export directory declares zero names. It validates candidate headers, row data, and pointers.
Probe tests and detection notes `crates/cli/src/pe.rs`, `crates/cli/src/report.rs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Fixtures and tests cover PE formats, invalid headers, scan boundaries, and runtime-warning wiring. The report documentation and changelog describe detection cases.

GUI Row Automation Names

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Displayed-content automation names `gui/ChronoMock.App/Controls/TextNamed*.cs`	New item controls create `TextNamedRow` containers. Their automation peers use an explicit name or derive one from visible content.
Text-named controls in GUI views `gui/ChronoMock.App/Themes/Parts.xaml`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/*.xaml`	Views and themes replace standard item controls with text-named controls while retaining existing bindings, templates, and layout settings.
GUI row-name and resource checks `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ItemNameGuardTests.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ItemPeerNameTests.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/XamlResourceKeyTests.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Tests check text-named control coverage, rendered item peer names, and catalogue localization keys. The changelog describes the screen-reader naming change.

Repository Hygiene Checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Comment parsing and vocabulary `crates/cli/tests/hygiene.rs`	Comment scanning adds quote-aware hash-comment handling and PowerShell block comments. The Polish-word list grows from 12 to 21 entries.
Source-name and text-file checks `crates/cli/tests/hygiene.rs`	New checks derive Polish vocabulary from translations, inspect Rust, C#, and XAML names, and detect invisible characters in tracked text files. Tests cover lexer behavior and name classification.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant XAMLView
  participant TextNamedList
  participant TextNamedRow
  participant AutomationPeer
  participant AssistiveTechnology
  XAMLView->>TextNamedList: supplies items and templates
  TextNamedList->>TextNamedRow: creates an item container
  TextNamedRow->>AutomationPeer: provides the explicit or displayed-content name
  AutomationPeer->>AssistiveTechnology: exposes the row name

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5d344

This change is close to mergeable. On the calculator screen, a screen reader can read the significance values twice: once as part of the reading row and again as separate rows. The new repository hygiene checks can miss some Polish comments, Polish XAML element names and bidi control characters. None of these issues affects the CLI's .NET detection or other runtime results. They are small, local fixes that are worth making before or shortly after merge.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	⚠️ Warning	The diff adds diagnostic debug output in `crates/cli/tests/hygiene.rs`: `println!("name scan: {names} names against {} Polish words", vocabulary.len());`. This line is absent from the base revision an…	Remove the added `println!` diagnostic. Keep the existing assertions for failure reporting.
Desktop Robustness	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds a potentially long synchronous operation without progress or cancellation. `PeFile::has_nativeaot_header` scans every non-executable section in 1 MiB reads with a cumulative 256 MiB budget…	Do not perform the NativeAOT section walk synchronously during startup or dry-run. Use a cheap fixed-size detection path, or run the scan through a cancellable operation that reports progress before the session proceeds. Ensure the scan is …
Safe File Parsing	⚠️ Warning	The PR introduces unsafe file reads in `crates/cli/tests/hygiene.rs::interface_words`. It iterates `std::fs::read_dir(root.join("site/pages"))` and reads `std::fs::read_to_string(page.path().join(form…	Reject symlinked entries and require regular files. Canonicalize the `site/pages` root and each candidate, then reject candidates outside that root before opening them. Read JSON and HTML through a bounded stream, detect an over-limit file,…
No Resource Leaks	⚠️ Warning	The new PE tests can leave temporary files after an assertion failure. `a_nativeaot_build_without_its_debug_export_is_recognised_by_its_module_header` creates multiple `chrono-pe-fingerprint--aot-` …	Add a `Drop`-based temporary-file or temporary-directory guard in `crates/cli/src/pe.rs` tests. Register every file immediately after creation, including the new `aot-`, `aot-window-`, and `Quiet.exe` fixtures, and remove the guard-only m…

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title identifies the three main changes: NativeAOT detection, screen-reader row names, and the name-related hygiene rule. It is specific and within the length limit.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	The PR adds tests for each changed behavior. NativeAOT detection in `crates/cli/src/pe.rs` has focused PE32/PE32+ tests for valid and invalid headers, row sizes, section IDs, image bounds, executable …
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The PR changes WPF/XAML code, so the check applies. The GUI diff replaces list-control types and updates matching property-element names; changed margins and other visual properties remain shared Stat…
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No explicit performance failure is introduced. The NativeAOT scan is linear, runs only when the export directory has zero names, and caps reads at 256 MiB; it is CLI file processing, not UI-thread wor…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The pull request does not add or change code that modifies the listed system state. The PE changes perform bounded, read-only executable inspection. The GUI changes only define WPF automation-name con…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The PR changes accessible row names and replaces one catalogue sample key. The new row names derive from visible text, such as localized warning sentences, table cells, `×1`, and `-1 day`; the affecte…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	No custom-check failure is present. The four commit subjects and the PR description cover the NativeAOT detection, accessible row controls, comment/name/invisible-character hygiene, and related docume…

Full details: No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers

Explanation

The diff adds diagnostic debug output in crates/cli/tests/hygiene.rs: println!("name scan: {names} names against {} Polish words", vocabulary.len());. This line is absent from the base revision and matches the check's forbidden println! debug output condition. No forbidden agent files or environment files were added, and the scan found no credentials or private paths.

Full details: Desktop Robustness

Explanation

The PR adds a potentially long synchronous operation without progress or cancellation. PeFile::has_nativeaot_header scans every non-executable section in 1 MiB reads with a cumulative 256 MiB budget. detect_runtime_warnings calls it before session preparation, and dry-run also calls it before rendering the plan. No progress or cancellation path exists, so startup can block while reading a large target.

Resolution

Do not perform the NativeAOT section walk synchronously during startup or dry-run. Use a cheap fixed-size detection path, or run the scan through a cancellable operation that reports progress before the session proceeds. Ensure the scan is performed at most once per invocation and that cancellation returns a safe unrecognised result.

Full details: Safe File Parsing

Explanation

The PR introduces unsafe file reads in crates/cli/tests/hygiene.rs::interface_words. It iterates std::fs::read_dir(root.join("site/pages")) and reads std::fs::read_to_string(page.path().join(format!("{language}.html"))) without checking that page is a real directory or that the resolved file remains under site/pages. A symlinked page directory can therefore redirect the test outside the intended folder. The same unbounded read_to_string and whole-string serde_json::from_str calls can allocate excessively for huge input. The new XAML guard also adds XDocument.Load(file, LoadOptions.SetLineInfo) without explicit XML safety limits or resolver settings.

Resolution

Reject symlinked entries and require regular files. Canonicalize the site/pages root and each candidate, then reject candidates outside that root before opening them. Read JSON and HTML through a bounded stream, detect an over-limit file, and parse the bounded buffer with serde_json rather than using unbounded read_to_string plus from_str. Replace XDocument.Load with XmlReader.Create using XmlReaderSettings that set DtdProcessing = Prohibit, XmlResolver = null, and a suitable MaxCharactersInDocument, then load from that reader.

Full details: No Resource Leaks

Explanation

The new PE tests can leave temporary files after an assertion failure. a_nativeaot_build_without_its_debug_export_is_recognised_by_its_module_header creates multiple chrono-pe-fingerprint-*-aot-* files through write_probe, and a_nativeaot_module_header_is_found_across_the_edge_of_a_read_window creates aot-window-* files. The remove_file calls run only after the assertions, so a panic leaves the files in the system temporary directory. Repeated failed test runs can accumulate them. The repository already uses a Drop-based TempDirGuard for this failure path. The production PE reader itself owns its std::fs::File by RAII, and the new WPF controls add no handlers, timers, tasks, or streams.

Resolution

Add a Drop-based temporary-file or temporary-directory guard in crates/cli/src/pe.rs tests. Register every file immediately after creation, including the new aot-*, aot-window-*, and Quiet.exe fixtures, and remove the guard-only manual cleanup or make it idempotent. Ensure cleanup runs during assertion panics and other early returns.

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The names in the PowerShell scripts and the names inside a C# interpolation hole are outside the scan. The test's own documentation now says so instead of leaving it to be discovered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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In `@crates/cli/tests/hygiene.rs`:
- Around line 1608-1622: Update xaml_names to also match the plain WPF Name
attribute using a leading space, while preserving its existing x:Name and x:Key
matching behavior.
- Around line 1709-1712: Update is_invisible to recognize the missing bidi
controls, soft hyphen, U+180E, and invisible math operators, while preserving
its existing character checks. Extend the associated doc comment to list the
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- Around line 1129-1144: Update hash_comment_part to track one active quote type
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TOML triple-quoted strings and PowerShell here-strings, while still detecting
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In `@gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ItemPeerNameTests.cs`:
- Around line 72-73: Update the failure message in ItemPeerNameTests to direct
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In `@gui/ChronoMock.App/Controls/TextNamedRow.cs`:
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CHANGELOG.md
crates/cli/src/cdp/mod.rs
crates/cli/src/pe.rs
crates/cli/src/report.rs
crates/cli/tests/hygiene.rs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ItemNameGuardTests.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ItemPeerNameTests.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/XamlResourceKeyTests.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App/Controls/TextNamedItems.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App/Controls/TextNamedList.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App/Controls/TextNamedRow.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App/Themes/Parts.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/AuditSectionView.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/CalculatorView.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/ComponentCatalogue.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/ResultPhaseView.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/SessionPhaseView.xaml

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