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

3B < int32 >	beq target	Branch to the target instruction at offset target if the two values are equal.

The stack transitional behavior, in sequential order, is:

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

The beq instruction transfers control to the specified target instruction if value1 is equal to value2. The effect is the same as performing a ceq instruction followed by a brtrue branch to the specific target instruction. The target instruction is represented as a 4-byte signed offset from the beginning of the instruction following the current instruction.

The acceptable operand types are encapsulated below:

If the target instruction has one or more prefix codes, control can only be transferred to the first of these prefixes.

Control transfers into and out of try, catch, filter, and finally blocks cannot be performed by this instruction (such transfers are severely restricted and must use the OpCodes.Leave instruction instead).

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

• ILGenerator.Emit(OpCode, Label)

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