I was just reading about the difference between HashMap and HashTable class in java. There I found a difference that former allow null key and later doesn't privileges for the same. As far as the working of HashMap is concern I know that, it calls hashcode method on key for finding the bucket in which that key value pair is to be placed. Here comes my question: How hashcode for a null value is computed or Is there any default value for hashcode of null key (if so please specify the value)?

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