Assembly (CLI) - Language of An Assembly

Language of An Assembly

The assembly is built up with the CIL code, which is an intermediate language. The framework internally converts the CIL into native assembly code. If we have a program that prints "Hello World", the equivalent CIL code for the method is:

.method private hidebysig static void Main(string args) cil managed { .entrypoint .custom instance void System.STAThreadAttribute::.ctor = ( 01 00 00 00 ) // Code size 11 (0xb) .maxstack 1 IL_0000: ldstr "Hello World" IL_0005: call void System.Console::WriteLine(string) IL_000a: ret } // end of method Class1::Main

So the CIL code loads the String onto the stack. Then it calls the WriteLine function and returns.

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