[Gllug] data segment vs stack

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, t.clarke wrote:

>Hi
>
>Apologies if this question seems silly,  but I am just curious as to whether
>the variables declared in the 'main()' function of a C program are created
>in the program's stack (in the same manner as variables declared in any
>'subsidiary' functions), or in the data segment  (which is where I assume
>'global' variables are created?)
>
>Can anyone enlighten me or point to a web resource that explains ?


main() is just a function like any other C function, and is special only
to the C run time as the entry point for user code. So any variables
declared within main() are local and therefore stack based. You can even
call main() recursively.



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>Tim
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