Computational Model
The Common Intermediate Language is object-oriented and stack-based. That means that data are pushed on a stack instead of pulled from registers like in most CPU architectures.
In x86 it might look like this:
add eax, edxThe corresponding code in IL can be rendered as this:
ldloc.0 ldloc.1 add stloc.0 // a = a + b or a += b;Here are two locals that are pushed on the stack. When the add-instruction is called the operands get popped and the result is pushed. The remaining value is then popped and stored in the first local.
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