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I'm going through MSIL and noticing there are a lot of nop instructions in the MSIL. The MSDN article says they take no action and are used to fill space if the opcode is patched. They're used a lot more in debug builds than release builds. I know that these kinds of statements are used in assembly languages to align later instructions, but why are MSIL nops needed in MSIL? (Editor's note: the accepted answer is about machine-code NOPs, not MSIL/CIL NOPs which the question originally asked about.)
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