While searching for an explanation on how a reference variable is implemented in Java I came across this question: What's inside a reference variable in Java? In there was a comment by Samuel_xL saying that specifying the vendor name would be a better question. So my question is that how an instance variable in implemented in Oracle JVM? Is it a pointer to an address? I know that a reference holds bits that tell the JVM how to access the object. But how is it structured??
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