What's the advantage of Monitor.Enter(object, ref bool) over Monitor.Enter(object)?

Question

According to the language specification lock(obj) statement; would be compiled as:

object lockObj = obj; // (the langspec doesn't mention this var, but it wouldn't be safe without it)
Monitor.Enter(lockObj);
try
{
    statement;
}
finally
{
    Monitor.Exit(lockObj);
}

However, it is compiled as:

try
{
    object lockObj = obj;
    bool lockTaken = false;
    Monitor.Enter(lockObj, ref lockTaken);
    statement;
}
finally
{
    if (lockTaken) Monitor.Exit(lockObj);
}

That seems to be a lot more complicated than necessary. So the question is, what's the advantage of that implementation?

Answer 1

As always, Eric Lippert has already answered this:

Fabulous Adventures In Coding: Locks and exceptions do not mix