MultiCastDelegate vs Delegate

[Nima]

The documentation for the Delegate and the MultiCastDelegate classes tell me
that when we have a line like:

public delegate void CheckAndPrintDelegate(string str);

it causes the compiler to generate a new delegate class named
CheckAndPrintDelegate that inherits from System.MulticastDelegate.

Elsewhere it says a the same delegate definition produces a delegate class
inheriting from System.Delegate.

Under what condition does this construct create an instance of
System.Delegate and under what condition does it create an instance of
System.MulticastDelegate?

Thanks

Nima Dilmaghani

[Mattias Sjögren]

it causes the compiler to generate a new delegate class named
CheckAndPrintDelegate that inherits from System.MulticastDelegate.

Elsewhere it says a the same delegate definition produces a delegate class
inheriting from System.Delegate.

Well the delegate's immediate base class is MulticastDelegate, but
that in turn inherits from Delegate so you could argue that both
statements are true.

Mattias

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