The shadowy figure took form and announced "I am Rich Salz and I say ...
Then if I have the code
tricky_pointer = 10000; for (; tricky_pointer < 50000 ;) { dumptofile(trick.data) tricky_pointer += 16; }
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++; Also if the object your pointing at is destroyed your pointer will be updated to null or you will generate an exception when you next use it as per the bargabe collection policy. --Matt