Why doesn't Java autoboxing extend to method invocations of methods of the autoboxed types?

Question

I want to convert a primitive to a string, and I tried:

myInt.toString();

This fails with the error:

int cannot be derefere         


        

Answer 1

In C#, integers are neither reference types nor do they have to be boxed in order for ToString() to be called. They are considered objects in the Framework (as a ValueType, so they have value semantics), however. In the CLR, methods on primitives are called by "indirectly" loading them onto the stack (ldind).