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Memory Segments of a Program in C

I'm looking for a tutorial describing about the various memory segments of a C program like code segment, data segment etc and what type of information is stored into them (i.e. where global, static, automatic etc variables are stored and why?).

--Ravi

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This discussion is not a real tutorial, but contains a lot of information to get you going.

Sven Marnach  2010-10-30 12:27:42
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Try reading this: Linkers & Loaders. This is the online copy of a wonderful book by John Levine, which delves into these things.

You will also benefit by reading more about ELF format. Wikipedia has links to more articles about the same.

Sudhanshu  2010-10-30 12:29:53

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