Hello Neil!

Replying to a message of Neil Heller to All:

 NH> If I were to create a variable, as such:

 NH> char * foo[] = "For whom the bell tolls";

 NH> how does the heap memory get cleared where that static string is 
 NH> located?

Who said it was heap memory?  The string "For whom the bell
tolls" is not on the heap, nor on the stack.  It is in read-only
memory in the data segment of your executable, eligible to be shared
amongst multiple invocations of your binary (executable or library).

foo, being an array of pointers to char, is on the stack, with a single
pointer to this read only memory.  That pointer will get recycled when foo
goes out of scope.  The string, however, lives on until the termination and
unloading of your program in all invocations.

 NH> If I were to create the variable as:

 NH> static char * foo[] = "For whom the bell tolls";

 NH> would it be cleared any differently?

foo would not be recycled until program termination.

Darin

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