got struck with Long wrapper anonymous object behaviour

[naveen shrimal]

Long tail=2000L;
Long distance=1000L;
Long story=1000L;
Integer d=900;
System.out.println((story*2)==tail); // here why it prints true is it because the anonymous object is pointing to
same tail object as in case of String immutaable class


Long h=story*2;
System.out.println(h==tail); // it prints false



can some 1 throw light on it

[Jeff Verdegan]

naveen shrimal wrote:
System.out.println((story*2)==tail); // here why it prints true is it because the anonymous object is pointing to
same tail object as in case of String immutaable class

I think you're mistaken. First, there's no such thing as an "anonymous object."

As for what's really happening, I believe that Long * int causes Long to get unboxed to long, int promoted to long, those two longs are multiplied to yield a long result, and then tail is unboxed to a long and compared for equality.

Also, unless you tell the JVM otherwise at startup, only -128..127 wrappers are cached.

Long h=story*2;
System.out.println(h==tail); // it prints false

Because here both h and tail are references, so no unboxing needs to occur, and we see that the two references do not point to the same object.