The superclass of primitive types is always null : SuperClass « Reflection « Java






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The superclass of primitive types is always null

  

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {

    Class cls = int.class;
    Class sup = cls.getSuperclass(); // null
  }
}








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