difference between object and reference variable??

Suman Pal10y ago

Accepted answer

Employee e1;

Employee e2=new Employee ();

Soumalya Das10y ago

plz send a sample code

Nitin Sontakke10y ago

Just out of curiosity, which code are you referring to? I don't see any code anywhere on the post!

Suman Pal10y ago

These two statements have different effect memory-wise since they are reference types. The first statement just creates a reference, or a pointer if you will, to an instance of type Employee. This essentially means, the statement tells the compiler "e" is going to point (refer) to an Employee object, but right now is pointing to nothing (null). The interesting part is, the reference itself, that is "e" is stored on the stack statically. So, here you create just the reference.