Why Any's methods are not abstract or native?

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Java

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Object's methods are marked as native, so it's easy to understand they are implemented behind the scene

Kotlin

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   public open class Any {
        public open operator fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean
        public open fun hashCode(): Int
        public open fun toString(): String
    }

Any's methods are not marked as native or abstract, so question is next:

When and how Any's methods are generated and why I can't just copy-paste Any class and compile without errors?

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Any's methods are not generated. The compiler maps Any to java.lang.Object, which provides the implementations of methods as part of the JDK.

The methods are not marked as abstract, because Any is not an abstract class. The methods are not marked as native because the mapping of Kotlin standard library classes to JDK classes is not unique to the Any class, and other methods mapped in a similar way are not native.

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