Is there a way to debug whether an inline class instance is boxed or unboxed at any given point?

# intellij

[Drew Hamilton]

Is there a way to debug whether an inline class instance is boxed or unboxed at any given point?

[Uberto Barbini]

My understanding is that there is no boxing/unboxing. Everything is done at compilation time and there is no trace of the inline class in the bytecode.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Drew Hamilton]

There is: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/inline-classes.html#representation

As a rule of thumb, inline classes are boxed whenever they are used as another type.

[Drew Hamilton]

so e.g. if you pass an inline class instance to a function that accepts an Any parameter, you’re going to get the boxed version

[karelpeeters]

You can always look at the generated bytecode and decompiled Java, Tools > Kotlin > Show Kotlin Bytecode > Decompile