Question

For the C statement given below i would like to know where the memmory allocation will take place.

char* ptr="Hello";//ptr is a automatic variable

then the pointer variable ptr will be allocated on the stack,but where will this string “Hello” be allocated.
Is it on Stack or on Heap?
And what about memory allocation for initialization statement like
char ptr[]=”Hello”;

Answer 1

The standard doesn’t say (it doesn’t know about “stack”, “heap” etc). But in practice the answer is: Neither. The string literal will be stored in the data section, usually in a read-only page.

As a side note, as Als mentions in the comments, it’s undefined behavior to attempt to modify a string literal.