What's the purpose of the CIL nop opcode?

Question

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 opc

Answer 1

NOPs serve several purposes:

• They allow the debugger to place a breakpoint on a line even if it is combined with others in the generated code.
• It allows the loader to patch a jump with a different-sized target offset.
• It allows a block of code to be aligned at a particular boundary, which can be good for caching.
• It allows for incremental linking to overwrite chunks of code with a call to a new section without having to worry about the overall function changing size.