java 实例变量 默认值,为什么实例变量在java中有默认值？

Why do variables declared in a class have default values, but the variables declared inside methods, said to be "local variables", don't have default values in Java?

For example

class abc

{

int a;

public static void main(String ss[])

{

int b;

abc aa=new abc();

System.out.println(aa.a);

System.out.println(b);

}

}

In this above example variable a has default value of 0 but variable b gives error that it might not have been initialized.

解决方案

All member variable have to load into heap so they have to initialized with default values when an instance of class is created. In case of local variables, they don't get loaded into heap they are stored in stack until they are being used before java 7, so we need to explicitly initialize them.

Now the "Java Hotspot Server Compiler" performs "escape analysis" and decides to allocate some variables on the stack instead of the heap.