Programming Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008: The Language

Miscellaneous Operations

This chapter already has included several sections and tables that explain various MSIL instructions—but not all of them have been covered. In particular, some MSIL instructions that appear in the sample code of this chapter have not been reviewed. Table 14-9 details some of these miscellaneous MSIL instructions.

Table 14-9. Miscellaneous MSIL instructions

Instruction	Description
and	Performs a bitwise AND
break	Inserts a debugger break point
castclass	Casts an instance to a different type
nop	Nonoperational instruction (a blank instruction)
or	Performs a bitwise OR
pop	Removes the top element of the evaluation stack
rethrow	Propagates an exception
throw	Throws an application exception