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Thinking about this: For 'Object x', x is nothing but a (typed) pointer. Pointer manipulation is heavily limited, but technically, Java has pointers.

• toolslive 9y ago
  it's a reference, not a pointer (fe, you cannot get its value/address), so it should have been NullReferenceException or NullDereferenceException (or something similar)
  • pjmlp 9y ago
    You can get its address via the unsafe package, and Panama will provide an alternative API to do it.