2010-04-06 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com>
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1 // OpCodeType.cs
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28 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
30 namespace System.Reflection.Emit {
32 /// <summary>
33 /// Describes the types of MSIL instructions.
34 /// </summary>
35 [ComVisible (true)]
36 [Serializable]
37 public enum OpCodeType {
39 /// <summary>
40 /// "Ignorable" instruction.
41 /// Such instruction are used to supply
42 /// additional information to particular
43 /// MSIL processor.
44 /// </summary>
45 [Obsolete ("This API has been deprecated.")]
46 Annotation = 0,
48 /// <summary>
49 /// Denotes "shorthand" instruction.
50 /// Such instructions take less space
51 /// than their full-size equivalents
52 /// (ex. ldarg.0 vs. ldarg 0).
53 /// </summary>
54 Macro = 1,
56 /// <summary>
57 /// Denotes instruction reserved for internal use.
58 /// </summary>
59 Nternal = 2,
61 /// <summary>
62 /// Denotes instruction to deal with objects.
63 /// (ex. ldobj).
64 /// </summary>
65 Objmodel = 3,
67 /// <summary>
68 /// </summary>
69 Prefix = 4,
71 /// <summary>
72 /// </summary>
73 Primitive = 5