I think this maybe a really dumb question, but i just want to be clarified. Thanks in advance! I’m not sure if an array of structure declared as a local variable inside a function gets allocated in the stack. Doesn’t?
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I think this maybe a really dumb question, but i just want to be clarified. Thanks in advance! I’m not sure if an array of structure declared as a local variable inside a function gets allocated in the stack. Doesn’t?
It does; anything you declare without allocating yourself (e.g. by calling
malloc) or declare static (as Fernando says) is allocated on the stack. Structures are just a way of grouping together multiple variables; they still have a fixed size (the total size of their elements, possibly plus some padding), and accessing a struct’s field just means pulling the appropriate bytes from somewhere within the struct