On Jan 24, 5:33pm, Matthew Sheppard wrote:
Aside from memory management in java being internal to the virtual machine as covered in other posts Java is a strongly typed language. There is no notion of void * (pointers that point to anything) and the current implementation ensures the pointer is either null or valid.
Even if you could the current implementation disallows any pointer arithmetic at all! i.e no pointer++;
-- End of excerpt from Matthew Sheppard
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