3 The Virtual Machine Instruction Set

3.1 - Format for the Instructions

3.2 - Pushing Constants onto the Stack

3.3 - Loading Local Variables Onto the Stack

3.4 - Storing Stack Values into Local Variables

3.5 - Wider index for Loading, Storing and Incrementing

3.6 - Managing Arrays

3.7 - Stack Instructions

3.8 - Arithmetic Instructions

3.9 - Logical Instructions

3.10 - Conversion Operations

3.11 - Control Transfer Instructions

3.12 - Function Return

3.13 - Table Jumping

3.14 - Manipulating Object Fields

3.15 - Method Invocation

3.16 - Exception Handling

3.17 - Miscellaneous Object Operations

3.18 - Monitors