frem

frem

Forms
frem = 114 (0x72)

Stack
..., value1, value2 ..., result

Description
Both value1 and value2 must be of type float. The values are popped from the operand stack. The result is calculated and pushed onto the operand stack as a float.

The result of an frem instruction is not the same that of the as the so-called remainder operation defined by IEEE 754. The IEEE 754 "remainder" operation computes the remainder from a rounding division, not a truncating division, and so its behavior is not analogous to that of the usual integer remainder operator. Instead, the Java Virtual Machine defines frem to behave in a manner analogous to that of the Java Virtual Machine integer remainder instructions (irem and lrem); this may be compared with the C library function fmod.

The result of an frem instruction is governed by these rules:

• If either value is NaN, the result is NaN.
• If neither value is NaN, the sign of the result equals the sign of the dividend.
• If the dividend is an infinity, or the divisor is a zero, or both, the result is NaN.

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