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The Virtual Machine Instruction Set


Stack Instructions

nop
pop
pop2
dup
dup2
dup_x1
dup2_x1
dup_x2
dup2_x2
swap

nop

Do nothing.

no change 

Do nothing.

pop

Pop top stack word

..., any => ...

Pop the top word from the stack.

pop2

Pop top two stack word

s

..., any2, any1 => ...

Pop the top two words from the stack.

dup

Duplicate top stack word

..., any => ..., any, any

Duplicate the top word on the stack.

dup2

Duplicate top two stack word

s

..., any2, any1 => ..., any2, any1, any2, any1

Duplicate the top two words on the stack.

dup_x1

Duplicate top stack word and put two down

..., any2, any1 => ..., any1, any2, any1

Duplicate the top word on the stack and insert the copy two words down in the stack.

dup2_x1

Duplicate top two stack words and put two down

..., any3, any2, any1 => ..., any2,, any1, any3, any2, any1

Duplicate the top two words on the stack and insert the copies two words down in the stack.

dup_x2

Duplicate top stack word and put three down.

..., any3, any2, any1 => ..., any1, any3, any2, any1

Duplicate the top word on the stack and insert the copy three words down in the stack.

dup2_x2

Duplicate top two stack words and put three down

..., any4, any3, any2, any1 => ..., any2, any1, any4, any3, any2, any1

Duplicate the top two words on the stack and insert the copies three words down in the stack.

swap

Swap top two stack words

..., any2, any1 => ..., any2, any1

Swap the top two elements on the stack.


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