MSIL Language Specification

[Zachary Turner]

Is there a place I can get a hold of the MSIL Language Specification?
I want a detailed reference for MSIL without having to resort to a book
such as Serge Linden's, since it is obviously doesn't cover the
modifications made to MSIL since the release of .NET 2.0.

Thanks

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Is there a place I can get a hold of the MSIL Language Specification?
I want a detailed reference for MSIL without having to resort to a book
such as Serge Linden's, since it is obviously doesn't cover the
modifications made to MSIL since the release of .NET 2.0.

See the ECMA 335 standard at
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm


Mattias

 

[BravesCharm]

If it's like 1.1 SDK the specs will come with it. under 1.1 I believe
it was in
Tool Developers Guide\docs under the SDK directory

 

[Richard Grimes]

If it's like 1.1 SDK the specs will come with it. under 1.1 I believe
it was in
Tool Developers Guide\docs under the SDK directory

Its not there.

Follow Matthias' suggestion

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm

or

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/ecma/

In terms of opcodes, there are just three new codes: constrained,
readonly and unbox any.

Richard

 

[Zachary Turner]

In particular I was actually holding out for the hope that IL supported
"template specialization" akin to that of C++s. Knew it was a 1%
chance though, and apparently I was right. It just seems a bit odd to
me that I can't write a generic method parameterized with a numeric
type and which takes a string as an argument, [for example, T
f<T>(string s)], and do the appropriate conversion without relying on
any runtime / reflection services. I've tried everything I can think
of, and I've decided that without something which is functionally
equivalent to template specialization, it isn't possible.