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C String literals: Where do they go?
As far as I know,
generally, pointer have to be allocated by malloc(), and will be allocated to heap, then unallocated by free();
and
non pointer(int,char,float,etc..) will be allocated automatically to stack, and unallocated as long as the function go to return
but, from following code :
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char *a;
a = "tesaja";
return 0;
}
where will a
allocated to ? stack or heap ?
The string literal will be allocated in data segment. The pointer to it, a
, will be allocated on the stack.
Your code will eventually get transformed by the compiler into something like this:
#include <stdio.h>
const static char literal_constant_34562[7] = {'t', 'e', 's', 'a', 'j', 'a', '\0'};
int main()
{
char *a;
a = &literal_constant_34562[0];
return 0;
}
Therefore, the exact answer to your question is: neither. Stack, data, bss and heap are all different regions of memory. Const static initialized variables will be in data.