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This is a .NET counterpart to unmanaged and native code execution residue pattern. Here we can use SOS extension !DumpStack command for call level execution residue (see Caller-n-Callee pattern example) and !DumpStackObjects (!dso) for managed object references found on a raw stack:

0:011> !DumpStackObjects
OS Thread Id: 0x8e0 (11)
ESP/REG  Object   Name
09efe4b8 0a2571bc System.Threading.Thread
09efe538 0a1ffddc System.Threading.Thread
09efe844 0a1ffba8 UserQuery
09efe974 0a1ffce0 System.Signature
09efea20 0a1ffd10 System.RuntimeTypeHandle[]
09efeae8 08985e14 System.Object[]    (System.Reflection.AssemblyName[])
09efeaec 0a1ffa78 System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch
09efeaf0 0a1ffa6c LINQPad.Extensibility.DataContext.QueryExecutionManager
09efeafc 0a1ffba8 UserQuery
09efeb00 0a1ffa58 System.RuntimeType
09efeb04 08995474 LINQPad.ObjectGraph.Formatters.XhtmlWriter
09efeb08 08985dfc System.Reflection.Assembly
09efeb0c 08985dc8 LINQPad.ExecutionModel.ResultData
09efeb10 08984548 LINQPad.ExecutionModel.Server
09efebdc 0a1ffbe8 System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo
09efebe0 0a1fcfc4 LINQPad.ExecutionModel.ConsoleTextReader
09efebe4 0a1fcddc System.IO.StreamReader+NullStreamReader
09efebe8 0899544c System.IO.TextWriter+SyncTextWriter
09efebec 08985efc System.Reflection.AssemblyName
09efebf0 08985d4c System.String    C:\Users\Training\AppData\Local\Temp\LINQPad\fcamvgpa
09efec30 08984548 LINQPad.ExecutionModel.Server
09efeedc 08985910 System.Threading.ThreadStart

0:011> !DumpObj 0a2571bc
Name: System.Threading.Thread
MethodTable: 790fe704
EEClass: 790fe694
Size: 56(0×38) bytes
(C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_32\mscorlib\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll)
Fields:
MT    Field   Offset                 Type VT     Attr    Value Name
7910a5c4  4000634        4 ….Contexts.Context  0 instance 08980ee4 m_Context
79104de8  4000635        8 ….ExecutionContext  0 instance 00000000 m_ExecutionContext
790fd8c4  4000636        c        System.String  0 instance 00000000 m_Name
790fe3b0  4000637       10      System.Delegate  0 instance 00000000 m_Delegate
79130084  4000638       14    System.Object[][]  0 instance 00000000 m_ThreadStaticsBuckets
7912d7c0  4000639       18       System.Int32[]  0 instance 00000000 m_ThreadStaticsBits
791028f4  400063a       1c …ation.CultureInfo  0 instance 00000000 m_CurrentCulture
791028f4  400063b       20 …ation.CultureInfo  0 instance 00000000 m_CurrentUICulture
790fd0f0  400063c       24        System.Object  0 instance 00000000 m_ThreadStartArg
791016bc  400063d       28        System.IntPtr  1 instance  8f69280 DONT_USE_InternalThread
79102290  400063e       2c         System.Int32  1 instance        2 m_Priority
79102290  400063f       30         System.Int32  1 instance       11 m_ManagedThreadId
7910a7a8  4000640      168 …LocalDataStoreMgr  0   shared   static s_LocalDataStoreMgr
>> Domain:Value  000710a8:06c42ef4 08e65d48:00000000 <<
790fd0f0  4000641      16c        System.Object  0   shared   static s_SyncObject
>> Domain:Value  000710a8:017b25d8 08e65d48:0898381c <<

Although unmanaged, CLR and JIT-code residue is useful for analysis, for example, as shown in Handled Exception pattern examples.

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