Fix wording of ldloca description #11313
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Summary
The current phrasing in the numbered list unambiguously and incorrectly means "dereference the local variable, which is guaranteed to contain an address, and push that address to the stack". The rest of the text correctly implies instead that it means "push the address of the local variable".
ECMA-335 6th edition states: