The following table lists the instruction's hexadecimal and Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) assembly format, along with a brief reference summary:

8F < T >	ldelema class	Loads the address of the array element at index onto the top of the evaluation stack as type & (managed pointer).

The stack transitional behavior, in sequential order, is:

[The 'ordered' type of list has not been implemented in the ECMA stylesheet.]

The ldelema is used to retrieve the address of an object at a particular index in an array of objects (of type class). The ldelema instruction loads the address of the value at index index (type native int) in the zero-based one-dimensional array array and places it on the top of the stack. Arrays are objects and hence represented by a value of type O. The value must be of type class passed with the instruction.

The return value for ldelema is a managed pointer (type &).

Note that integer values of less than 4 bytes are extended to int32 (not native int) when they are loaded onto the evaluation stack.

NullReferenceException is thrown if array is a null reference.

ArrayTypeMismatchException is thrown if array does not hold elements of the required type.

IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown if index is negative, or larger than the bound of array.

The following ILGenerator.Emit(OpCode) method overload can use the ldelema opcode:

• ILGenerator.Emit(OpCode, Type)

Namespace: System.Reflection.Emit
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0