Re: static, global variable memory allocation

In article <octm94xchr.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Flash Gordon <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was now specifically aware of that, to be hones I gave up caring
before I started programming on Unix, but given:
static const char var[]="Static array";
Would you expect var to be in that area you refer to as a heap or, as I
would hope, in a separate memory region that was set to read only?

I'm not sure that the semantics of const allow it to be read-only, but
supposing it does, I'm not sure you couldn't say that part of the
heap was read-only. Equally part of it could be autmoatically zeroed.

On reflection, I agree it's probably better not to call the
statically-allocated data part of the heap.

-- Richard
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