【2014-11-23】《The Hardware/Software Interface》– Section 11
- Data in Java
- Java has pointers – they are called ‘referenes’
- Null is typically represented as 0
- Characters and strings
- Arrays
- Data structures (Object) in Java
- Objects can only include primitive data types
- include complex data types(arrays, other objects, ec.) using references
- Objects can only include primitive data types
- Pointers/References
- Pointers in C can point to any memory address
- References in Java can only point to an object
- And only to its first element – not to the middle of it
- In Java, all variables are reference to objects
- use r.a notation
- Casting in C
- we can cast any pointer into any other pointer
- Casting in Java
- can only cast compatible object references
- Java Methods
- Methods in Java are just functions but with an extra argument: a reference to the object whose method is being called
- Vitual machine and runtime environment