Is there anything similar to C++ pointers in Java? If there is, I would like to know what it is. Could you give me some examples?
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Is there anything similar to C++ pointers in Java? If there is, I would like to know what it is. Could you give me some examples?
Java’s pointers (so called by the language specification, while I believe Java programmers mostly know them as “references”) do not support pointer arithmetic.
And Java has no way to do pointer arithmetic.
If you want to do such low-level stuff in Java, one way is to use JNI (the Java Native Interface) to access code written in C or C++.