Size of bool variable

Hi All,
I tried and look for size of bool variable in java but was not able to find the same. Can anyone please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Mehul.

In Java, you never deal with the byte-size of variables, unless you are serializing them.

Hi,
I am sorry but I didnt get the gist of what you are trying to say.
Just like int = 32bits, double = 64bits, same way, bool = ?bits ??
Thanks again!
Regards,
Mehul.

It's not a meaningful question. A boolean is either true or false. Java does not have C's pointers or sizeof() operator.
If you call the writeBoolean() method of a DataOutputStream, you will write one byte.
[ September 03, 2003: Message edited by: Ron Newman ]

Thanks Ron!
I get the point that for a user it does not make any difference as bool variable can only store true/false.
What I wanted tot know was how does JVM internally represent it, as a byte or as a bit?
Thanks again.
Regards,
Mehul.

Since that decision is not visible to you as the user of the JVM, I presume it's implementation-dependent.

The JVM instruction set actually doesn't contain any boolean-specific instructions; Java compilers use int instructions for them. So booleans in registers are basically 32-bit, like an int.
I've heard it said that it's possible for the JVM to optimize the storage of arrays of boolean to use one byte or even one bit each; don't know if any actually do this or not.

boolean variable memory size is platform dependent. Many JVMS booleans are implemented internally as ints so this means 4 bytes. So dont think that boolean means less memory.