2 Conformance

A system claiming conformance to this International Standard shall implement all the mandatory requirements of this standard, and shall specify the profile (see Partition IV) that it implements. The minimal implementation is the Kernel Profile (see Partition IV). A conforming implementation may also include additional functionality that does not prevent running code written to rely solely on the profile as specified in this standard. For example, it may provide additional classes, new methods on existing classes, or a new interface on a standardized class, but it shall not add methods or properties to interfaces specified in this standard.

A compiler that generates Common Intermediate Language (CIL, see Partition III) and claims conformance to this International Standard shall produce output files in the format specified in this standard and the CIL it generates shall be valid CIL as specified in this standard. Such a compiler may also claim that it generates verifiable code, in which case the CIL it generates shall be verifiable as specified in this standard.