vijay85_ace

 Profile Answers by vijay85_ace 

• Jan 9th, 2009

 

Both uses the stack memory. heap memory is used by the os.

impakt

 Profile Answers by impakt 

• Feb 17th, 2009

 

"static" variables are hold in the heap memory and "auto" variables are stored on the stack.

vivekbansal20

 Profile Answers by vivekbansal20 

• Jun 18th, 2009

 

Static varibales are neither stored in stack nor in heap. Static varibales are stored in data segment.

Auto variables are stored in stack and dynamic allocated variables are stored in heap.

alokag

 Profile Answers by alokag 

• Jun 25th, 2009

 

Fully agree with vivekbansal. Static variables (not initialized to value other than 0) are always stored in BSS else in "Data" of data segment.

rajatpaliwal86

 Profile Answers by rajatpaliwal86 

• Aug 10th, 2009

 

Heap(Data Segment & BSS(Block start by symbol))

psjetha

 Profile Answers by psjetha 

• Sep 1st, 2009

 

Static variables use stack memory.

niyas15

 Profile Answers by niyas15 

• Mar 2nd, 2010

 

The static variable is stored at data section and local variables are stored at stack and dynamic allocation of data are strored at heep

kbjarnason

 Profile Answers by kbjarnason 

• Jul 1st, 2010

 

Since C has no concept of "stack", the question of whether stack or heap memory is used seems a bit unclear.

Static variables come in two distinct flavours: file scope and block scope.  Static file scope variables are differentiated from external/public file scope variables by having internal linkage. 

Further, static variables have static storage duration, they live for the lifetime of the program, and are initialized once, prior to program start.

For block local static variables, an effective means to manage them is either on a system stack memory (if it has one) or with a stack-like structure, but this is an implementation detail; the language does not specify how such are stored, only the requirements on initialization, lifetime and visibility (scope).