OP_1NEGATE ​
INFO
Opcode number: 79
Byte representation: 0x4f
Short Description: Push the number -1 onto the stack.
The OP_1NEGATE
opcode will push 0x81
(representing -1 in the context of script execution) onto the stack. This opcode utilizes the minimally encoded integers format.
Examples ​
Example 1 ​
shell
# ASM script
OP_1NEGATE OP_1NEGATE
# Raw script
4f4f
# Final stack
-1
-1
Example 2 ​
shell
# ASM script
OP_8 OP_1NEGATE OP_ADD
# Raw script
584f93
# Final stack
7
In the first example, we have a script with two OP_1NEGATE
opcodes. After execution, we have two -1s on the stack. In the second example, we add another opcode, OP_ADD
, to the script. The OP_ADD
opcode will remove the two top items from the stack, add them together, and then push the result back onto the stack. 8 + (-1) results in 7, which is then pushed onto the stack.