Question

lets say I have a file test.c that contains:

char buffer1[1024];

int somefunction()
{
      char buffer2[1024];
      // do stuff
}

now I know buffer2 is allocated on the stack on the frame belonging to somefunction calls, but where is buffer1 allocated ?

Answer 1

These variables are typically on BSS (variables which don’t have explicit initialization in the source code, so they get the value 0 by default) or data segment (initialized datas). Here, buffer1 is uinitialized, so it will probably be allocated on BSS segment, which starts at the end of the data segment.

From bravegnu website: