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What is different between pointer and reference variable in java ?

What is different between pointer and reference variable in java ?

Abhishek Dubey

14yAsked May 2, 2012, 7:20 PM2.6kJava

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we want to know What is different between pointer and reference variable in java ?

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Vulpes14y ago
A pointer is a variable which holds the memory address of another variable. Pointers are not supported in Java.

A reference variable is a variable which holds the memory address of an object on the heap. References are tracked by the garbage collector and may therefore change if memory is compacted when other objects are destroyed.
Nilesh Makwana14y ago
pointer is point to the current object when reference variable will reference of the particular object it is a alias name of object
MuthuMari M14y ago
Hi,

pls refer this url,

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/128783-difference-between-pointers-references.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/57483/what-are-the-differences-between-pointer-variable-and-reference-variable-in-c

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