Method Termination
The majority of this chapter has focused on how to enter a method in the CLR. Before concluding this chapter, it seems appropriate to look at how methods are left once they are invoked.
Barring termination of a process, AppDomain, or thread, there are two ways to leave a method after it has been entered: normal termination and abnormal termination. This is illustrated in Figure 6.14. The CIL ret instruction, which invariably terminates every method's instruction stream, triggers normal termination. The ret instruction may also appear in other locations in the instruction stream, typically due to return statements in C#, C++, or VB.NET. When a method terminates normally, the typed return value is available to the caller, and ...
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