type casting in java

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  Anoop Kumar

  Can you post the compiled file which shows Boolean is stored as 1/0?
  Here is code compiled code of following method in Eclipse.
  
  

  public static void main(String[] args) {
          Boolean b = true;
          int i = 10;
      }
  
  ---------------------------------
  
  // Method descriptor #15 ([Ljava/lang/String;)V
    // Stack: 1, Locals: 3
    public static void main(java.lang.String[] args);
      0  iconst_1
      1  invokestatic java.lang.Boolean.valueOf(boolean) : java.lang.Boolean [16]
      4  astore_1 [b]
      5  bipush 10
      7  istore_2 [i]
      8  return
        Line numbers:
          [pc: 0, line: 6]
          [pc: 5, line: 7]
          [pc: 8, line: 8]
        Local variable table:
          [pc: 0, pc: 9] local: args index: 0 type: java.lang.String[]
          [pc: 5, pc: 9] local: b index: 1 type: java.lang.Boolean
          [pc: 8, pc: 9] local: i index: 2 type: int

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  micheal john

  Boolean cannot be cast to Integer, because Boolean is not child of Number abstract class
  
  

  public final class Boolean implements java.io.Serializable,
                                        Comparable
  {
  ...
  }
  

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  Anoop Kumar

  micheal john

  Boolean cannot be cast to Integer, because Boolean is not child of Number abstract class
  
  

  public final class Boolean implements java.io.Serializable,
                                        Comparable
  {
  ...
  }
  

  Perfect answer👍
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  radha gogia

  see in the pic that the decompiler actually shows that the boolean is internally taken as int.
  
  
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  Shashank Moghe

  #-Link-Snipped-# gave the perfect answer as to why it cannot typecast. Besides, if you want to get that done, you can always use IF and comparison to do so.
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  Anoop Kumar

  #-Link-Snipped-# : 1st, JD is not perfect , it just try to decode bytecode logic.
  2nd, JD is identifying boolean as int which is wrong. If you observe the Eclipse code I have given, boolean is being recognise as "Boolean" type.
  Anyway, #-Link-Snipped-# has given the answer.
• 

  micheal john

  Shashank Moghe

  #-Link-Snipped-# gave the perfect answer as to why it cannot typecast. Besides, if you want to get that done, you can always use IF and comparison to do so.

  Which version of java does your Java Decompiler supports,
  Decompilers tries to reconstruct the java file but the exact one(original).
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  radha gogia

  Anoop Kumar

  #-Link-Snipped-# : 1st, JD is not perfect , it just try to decode bytecode logic.
  2nd, JD is identifying boolean as int which is wrong. If you observe the Eclipse code I have given, boolean is being recognise as "Boolean" type.
  Anyway, #-Link-Snipped-# has given the answer.

  okk i got it,but how much size is actually allocated for a boolean type variable,can we say it in terms of 1 byte or 1 bit,becoz i am getting different answers from various sources ,i studied on stackoverflow,there i got that actually boolean internally gets converted to int ,so little confusions are there.
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  Anoop Kumar

  Please see Oracle docs: Primitive Data Types (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)
  

  boolean: The boolean data type has only two possible values: true and false. 
  Use this data type for simple flags that track true/false conditions. 
  This data type represents one bit of information, but its "size" isn't something that's precisely defined.

  Here is your discussion about casting :
  #-Link-Snipped-#
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  radha gogia

  Anoop Kumar

  Please see Oracle docs: Primitive Data Types (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)
  

  boolean: The boolean data type has only two possible values: true and false.
  Use this data type for simple flags that track true/false conditions.
  This data type represents one bit of information, but its "size" isn't something that's precisely defined.

  Here is your discussion about casting :
  #-Link-Snipped-#

  I read it ,but in the documentation it is written that The byte data type can be useful for saving memory in large Arrays (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics), where the memory savings actually matters,but it is true that implicitly byte,short,char all are converted to int ,then how come it saves memory..
  
  Also ,I agree now that size of boolean is undefined,it is totally jvm dependent but still i dnt understand that actually why the decompiler showed int.
  and does it mean that decompiler is wrong in many cases
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  Anoop Kumar

  radha gogia

  but it is true that implicitly byte,short,char all are converted to int ,then how come it saves memory..

  I never occurred to read this. If your statement is true then byte and int will occupy same memory while execution, it is true??
  
  Not sure about Byte for array, here is #-Link-Snipped-#discussion, I need to find out more about it.
  
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  radha gogia

  Anoop Kumar

  I never occurred to read this. If your statement is true then byte and int will occupy same memory while execution, it is true??
  
  Not sure about Byte for array, here is #-Link-Snipped-#discussion, I need to find out more about it.
  

  actually sir this thing i got to realise through the working of decompiler.,becoz i loaded my class in the decompiler,i saw there that the char ,byte ,short variables were treated as int variables.