Common Intermediate Language
Common Intermediate Language, aka Common Intermediate Language, is an actively used programming language created in 2000. Common Intermediate Language (CIL, pronounced either sil or kil), formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), is the lowest-level human-readable programming language defined by the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specification and is used by the .NET Framework and Mono. Languages which target a CLI-compatible runtime environment compile to CIL, which is assembled into an object code that has a bytecode-style format. CIL is an object-oriented assembly language, and is entirely stack-based. Read more on Wikipedia...
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- Common Intermediate Language first appeared in 2000
- See also: cli-assembly, assembly-language, csharp, x86-isa, java-bytecode, visual-basic-dot-net
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Example code from the web:
.assembly Hello {} .assembly extern mscorlib {} .method static void Main() { .entrypoint .maxstack 1 ldstr "Hello, world!" call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string) ret }
Example code from Wikipedia:
.method assembly static void modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallConvCdecl) test_pointer_operations(int32 param) cil managed { .vtentry 1 : 1 // Code size 44 (0x2c) .maxstack 2 .locals ([0] int32* ptr, [1] valuetype A* V_1, [2] valuetype A* a, [3] int32 k) // k = 0; IL_0000: ldc.i4.0 IL_0001: stloc.3 // ptr = &k; IL_0002: ldloca.s k // load local's address instruction IL_0004: stloc.0 // *ptr = 1; IL_0005: ldloc.0 IL_0006: ldc.i4.1 IL_0007: stind.i4 // indirection instruction // ptr = ¶m IL_0008: ldarga.s param // load parameter's address instruction IL_000a: stloc.0 // *ptr = 2 IL_000b: ldloc.0 IL_000c: ldc.i4.2 IL_000d: stind.i4 // a = new A; IL_000e: ldloca.s a IL_0010: call valuetype A* modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallConvThiscall) 'A.{ctor}'(valuetype A* modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst) modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst)) IL_0015: pop // ptra = &a; IL_0016: ldloca.s a IL_0018: stloc.1 // ptra->meth(); IL_0019: ldloc.1 IL_001a: dup IL_001b: ldind.i4 // reading the VMT for virtual call IL_001c: ldind.i4 IL_001d: calli unmanaged stdcall void modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallConvStdcall)(native int) IL_0022: ret } // end of method 'Global Functions'::test_pointer_operations
Last updated August 9th, 2020