Does calling a method on a value type result in boxing in .NET?

Question

I was just participating in Stack Overflow question Is everything in .NET an object?.

And one poster (in comments of accepted answer) seemed to think that p

Answer 1

Here's the IL for your code:

L_0001: ldc.i4.5      // get a 5 on the stack
L_0002: stloc.0       // store into x
L_0003: ldloca.s x    // get the address of x on the stack
L_0005: call instance string [mscorlib]System.Int32::ToString()  // ToString
L_000a: stloc.1       // store in s

So the answer in this case is no.