Alexey Trofimov kaffe-announce@rufus.w3.org
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:43:27 -0700


Sameer,
may I ask, why you asking me about this stuff ?
Regards,
Alexey
-----Original Message-----
From: Sameer Sharma <sameers@ece.rutgers.edu>
To: kaffe-announce@rufus.w3.org <kaffe-announce@rufus.w3.org>
Date: 7 декабря 1998 г. 18:36


>Hi,
>Does anyone know the difference between referencing an object from the
>stack versus getting an integer? I am asking this question in the context
>of the folowing instructions.
>
>if_acmpeq
>    jump if two object references are equal
>
>    if_acmpeq <label>
>
>Stack
> Before
> value1
> value2
>
> After
> ...
> ...
>
>
>Description
>if_acmpeq pops the top two object references off the stack and compares
>them.
>
>
>
>
>if_icmpeq
>     jump if two integers are equal
>Description
>
>if_icmpeq pops the top two ints off the stack and compares them.
>
>
>
>Isn't the stack uniquely defined to hold a particular type of values? How
>is the object delimited?
>Sameer
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