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Storage Class

Subject: Problem-Solving Using C


Raj Ku. Baliyar Singh, Asst. Professor, Dept. CSE, NIST (Auto)

Variable in C programming has two properties: type and storage class.


 Type refers to the data type of a variable. And, storage class determines
the scope, visibility, and lifetime of a variable.
 Storage Class specifiers in C are an important topic of memory
management in C.
The Storage class defines the following attributes of a variable:
Scope (Visibility of a variable):
The scope of a variable says where the variable is accessible and where
not in the program. The scope of a variable is determined at compile-
time only without creating any function call stack in which it is created
which happens at run-time.
Default definition value:
Memory allocation does not happen in the declaration whereas in
definition memory gets allocated to the variable.
Lifetime:
The lifetime of a variable refers to its validity, that for how long we can
access it in the program in its permitted scope.

storage_class data_type_of_variable name_of_variable;

There are 4 types of storage classes:


1. automatic
2. external
3. static
4. register

Memory Layout of a C program

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