sipush

sipush
byte1
byte2

Forms
sipush = 17 (0x11)

Stack
... ..., value

Description
The immediate unsigned byte1 and byte2 values are assembled into an intermediate short where the value of the short is (byte1 << 8) | byte2. The intermediate value is then sign-extended to an int, and the resulting value is pushed onto the operand stack.

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