Introduction to Virtual Machine and API Programming • 805
Value of iinc instruction is incremented by the value byte2, where byte2 is treated as a signed 8-bit
quantity.
The last instruction of the above bytecode is goto instruction, which is given at line-62 as given
below:
62: goto 26
There are two versions of goto statement: goto -no change and goto -no change.
The goto instruction is also used for transferring control. Byte1 and byte2 are used to construct a signed
16-bit/32-bit offset. For goto statement, execution starts at that particular offset from the register pc.
24.8 SWITCH STATEMENTS AND VIRTUAL MACHINE
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