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According to the Partition II metadata, it says that the valid field is a bitmask that notes which CLR metadata tables are present in a .NET executable–but what I can’t figure out is what the “sorted” field is for–what is its significance, and what should I emit into this field when creating my own .NET portable executable images?
I think the sorted field is just hinting if the specific metadata table is sorted or not (it’s a bitfield just like valid).
This would allow an implemenation of a runtime to do a binary search on the table directly from the memmapped data.