Difference between revisions of "Pushdata Opcodes"

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The pushdata opcodes push the next bytes of data onto the stack. Opcodes 1-75 simply push the next bytes of data onto the stack without a necessity to specify how many bytes to push.
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The pushdata opcodes push the next bytes of data onto the stack. Opcodes 1-75 simply push the next bytes of data onto the stack without a requirement to specify how many bytes to push.
  
 
=== OP_PUSHDATA1 ===
 
=== OP_PUSHDATA1 ===

Revision as of 00:51, 13 January 2020

The pushdata opcodes push the next bytes of data onto the stack. Opcodes 1-75 simply push the next bytes of data onto the stack without a requirement to specify how many bytes to push.

OP_PUSHDATA1

OP_PUSHDATA1 is used to push data of a length from 75 to 255 bytes onto the stack.

OP_PUSHDATA2

OP_PUSHDATA2 is used to push data of length from 256 bytes up to 64 KB onto the stack.

OP_PUSHDATA4

OP_PUSHDATA2 is used to push data of length from 64,001 bytes up to 4.3 GB onto the stack.