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l2f

convert long to float

Jasmin Syntax

     l2f 

Stack

Before	After
long-word1	float
long-word2	...
...

Description

Pops a long integer off of the stack, casts it into a single precision floating point number, and pushes the single float back onto the stack. Notice that this can cause loss of precision (the significand in a float is 24 bits, compared to 64 bits for the long) though not loss of magnitude (since the range of a float is greater than the range of a long). Rounding is done using the IEEE 754 round-to-nearest mode.

Bytecode

Type	Description
u1	l2f opcode = 0x89 (137)

See Also

l2i, l2d

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Java Virtual Machine, by Jon Meyer and Troy Downing, O'Reilly Associates