Java Bytecode

Java Bytecode is a bytecode format created in 1995. Java bytecode is the instruction set of the Java virtual machine (JVM).. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• Java Bytecode first appeared in 1995
• See also: jvm-vm, java, assembly-language, c, coldfusion, jruby, jython, ruby, python, groovy, scala, ada, clojure, lisp, javafx-script, kotlin, object-pascal, free-pascal, cil
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Example code from Wikipedia:

0:   iconst_2
1:   istore_1
2:   iload_1
3:   sipush  1000
6:   if_icmpge       44
9:   iconst_2
10:  istore_2
11:  iload_2
12:  iload_1
13:  if_icmpge       31
16:  iload_1
17:  iload_2
18:  irem
19:  ifne    25
22:  goto    38
25:  iinc    2, 1
28:  goto    11
31:  getstatic       #84; // Field java/lang/System.out:Ljava/io/PrintStream;
34:  iload_1
35:  invokevirtual   #85; // Method java/io/PrintStream.println:(I)V
38:  iinc    1, 1
41:  goto    2
44:  return

Last updated February 18th, 2020

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