Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler

Appendix A

IL Assembler Grammar Reference

Lexical Tokens

• ID  C-style alphanumeric identifier (e.g., Hello_There2)

• DOTTEDNAME  Composite dot-separated name (e.g., System. Object)

• QSTRING  C-style quoted string (e.g., "hi\n")

• SQSTRING  C-style single-quoted string (e.g., 'hi')

• INT64 C-style 64 bit integer (e.g., -2353453636235234, 0x34FFFFFFFFFF)

• FLOAT64  C-style floating point number (e.g., -0.2323, 354.3423, 3435.34E-5)

• HEXBYTE  Two-digit unsigned hexadecimal number (e.g., 0A, F4)

• INSTR_*  IL instructions of a particular kind