Considering these classes:
public class Animal{
}
public class Dog extends Animal{
}
public AnimalTest(){
public static void main(String[] args){
Dog d = new Dog();
Animal a = d;
}
}
my question is since I performed an upcasting on Animal a = d;
does it consume a new memory allocation on the machine or does it use the memory allocated to the Dog d = new Dog();
Animal a = d;
a
is just a reference and the reference's memory is allocated in method stack(or jvm stack, not heap).
That is when invoke the method main
, JVM will allocate a stack which contains the reference's space.
The Actual object or its memory footprint is not affected. just a new reference to the object is created. The only difference is that the reference a
can only call methods or access attributes that was available in the Super Class Animal.
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21374682/memory-allocation-for-upcasting-in-java