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pop

discard top word on stack

Jasmin Syntax

     pop 

Stack

Before	After
item	...
...

Description

Pops the top single-word item off the stack and discards it.

Example

 invokevirtual Myclass/test()Z  ; call boolean Myclass.test(); pop                            ; discard the boolean result 

Bytecode

Type	Description
u1	pop opcode = 0x57 (87)

See Also

pop2

Notes

1. Use pop2 to remove long integers and doubles from the stack (using pop when the top item on the stack is a long integer or double will cause a verification error).

2. Note there is no matching "push" instruction. Use bipush, sipush, one of the

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