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1. What does casting do at compiler/machine level?    stackoverflow.com

I have often wondered what exactly does casting do at compiler or machine level. What does it do with the 0 and 1s in memory? Can anyone point me at some good ...

2. Using javax.tools.ToolProvider from a custom classloader?    stackoverflow.com

It seems to be impossible to use javax.tools.ToolProvider from a custom classloader as required by Ant or Webstart: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6548428 javax.tools.ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler() loads javax.tools.JavaCompiler into a URLClassLoader whose parent is the system ...

3. Java casting: is the compiler wrong, or is the language spec wrong, or am I wrong?    stackoverflow.com

I have been reading the Java Language Spec, 3rd edition, and have found what I think is a discrepancy between the spec and the javac compiler implementation. The same discrepancies exist ...

4. Java compilation question regarding casting    stackoverflow.com

If I have two objects not related to each other. What will happen in the following cases: We have: Object A, Object B 

A a = new A();
B b = new B();
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5. Dynamic casting in java compiler error    stackoverflow.com

I have 3 classes A, B, and C. The only thing they have in common is a getName() function, nothing else. I have an array of type Class which stores the above ...

6. Cast compiler error    coderanch.com

The following example results in a compiler exception and needs a cast to execute. class Alien { String invade(short ships) { return "a few"; } String invade(short... ships) { return "many"; } } class Defender { public static void main(String [] args) { System.out.println(new Alien().invade(7)); } } [code=java] For primitives, I know that the result of arithmetic operations with byte and ...