Putting a byte array on the stack

Question

Hi,
How do you allocate a local variable (eg a byte[]) on the machine's stack instead of allocating memory on the heap ?
To clarify my question:
void foo()
   byte[] theArray = new byte[5];
}C equivalent:
void foo(void)
   u_8* theArray = getmem(5);
}And what I want is the Java equivalent of this C function:
void foo(void)
  u_8 theArray[5];
}

Answer 1

Hi,
How do you allocate a local variable (eg a byte[]) on
the machine's stack instead of allocating memory on
the heap ?You don't.
Up through 5.0, objects are always created on the heap. Apparently in 6.0, they're considering doing escape analysis so that some objects could be allocated on the stack. However, even if they do that, I can almost guarantee that you won't be able to explicitly specify that.