In general, you can regard memory as being one of four types:
- Static or global
- String pool
- Automatic or stack
- Free store
When you declare a variable at the global level, or if you have a variable declared in a function as static, then the compiler will ensure that the variable is allocated from memory that has the same lifetime as the application--the variable is created when the application starts and deleted when the application ends.
When you use a string literal, the data will also, effectively, be a global variable, but stored in a different part of the executable. For a Windows executable, string literals are stored in the .rdata PE/COFF section of the executable. The .rdata section of the file is for read-only initialized ...
