Global memory management in C++ in stack or heap?

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Since I wasn’t satisfied with the answers, and hope that the sameer karjatkar wants to learn more than just a simple yes/no answer, here you go.

Typically a process has 5 different areas of memory allocated

  1. Code – text segment
  2. Initialized data – data segment
  3. Uninitialized data – bss segment
  4. Heap
  5. Stack

If you really want to learn what is saved where then read and bookmark these:

COMPILER, ASSEMBLER, LINKER AND LOADER: A BRIEF STORY (look at Table w.5)

Anatomy of a Program in Memory

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