Re: question from a java novice

1999-02-17 Thread Christopher Hinds
Pointers in C\C++ can be cast to pointers of other valid types and manipulated with various standard library functions or just plain pointer arithmetic.     Example C\C++:     int  number = 12345;     unsigned char * charNumber = (unsigned  char*)&number;       if(charNumber[0] = 0x3

question from a java novice

1999-02-17 Thread Sohail Zafar
Can some body tell me what is the difference between pointers in C++ and handles in java. Regards Sohail