.NET IL Assembler

Chapter 13

IL Instructions

When a method is executed, three categories of memory local to the method plus one category of external memory are involved. All these categories represent typed data slots, not simply an address interval as is the case in the unmanaged world. The external memory manipulated from the method is the community of the fields the method accesses (except the fields of value types belonging to the local categories). The local memory categories include an argument table, a local variable table, and an evaluation stack. Figure 13-1 describes data transitions between these categories. As you can see, all IL instructions resulting ...