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invokespecial

Notes
The difference between the invokespecial and the invokevirtual instructions is that invokevirtual invokes a method based on the class of the object. The invokespecial instruction is used to invoke instance initialization methods (<init>) as well as private methods and methods of a superclass of the current class.

The invokespecial instruction was named invokenonvirtual prior to Sun's JDK 1.0.2 release.

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