How are treated constants in various languages/compilers? They take up space in RAM in runtime or are replaced with their values at compile time?
How are treated constants in various languages/compilers? They take up space in RAM in
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How are treated constants in various languages/compilers? They take up space in RAM in runtime or are replaced with their values at compile time?
A compiler is free to go either way. The typical way to handle this is to use scalars directly while keeping larger objects like arrays in memory.
In addition, if you build an embedded system, they typically go into read-only memory like flash rather than RAM.