Memory Allocation

[nathey]

Just a quick and (hopefully) easy question about the actual memory allocation of lines of code.

in the code:

class Asdf{
Object[] a;

public Asdf(){
a = new Object[0];
}

}

is memory allocated for the array at the line Object[] a; or rather at the initialization inside the constructor?

[Junky]

Both.

What you have to remember is that a is not an array. It is a variable that can reference an array. So the first line allocates memory for the variable. The other line allocates memory for the array object.