Looking at the output of ildasm, I was wondering if there's a size limit on
msil for any given method. The IL_xxxx index is an hexa number on 16-bits.
Does it mean that for any given method, there's a 64 kb size limit?

I know I shoudn't create methods so big, but let's say I want a 256 kb
method. Would it compile?

Those labels are added by ILDASM, it's not a restriction of the MSIL. If you
consider the branch instruction the offset is 32 bit, so you can assume that
there's no 16 bit restriction.

Gabriele

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The IL for every method has a header, it is either 'tiny' or 'fat'
format. The tiny format header uses 6 bits to indicate the size of the
method (64 bytes). The fat format uses 4 bytes to indicate the size of
the method (4Gb).

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Yes, but it would be a bit silly because you can guarantee that much of
the code won't be called, and if you factorize the code into methods it
would reduce considerably the amount of code that would be JIT compiled.
Of course, I know that you are not thinking of writing a 256 Kb method
<g>

Richard
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