String Objects and String Literals

[RastaWolf]

Hey Everyone,

I understand that strings are objects of the class string, so when you store a string in a variable, it's actually a reference to the string object.

But where is the string literal being stored?

I feel like I'm missing something essential to understanding this...

[vlad from moscow]

String literals if they do not used to initialize a character array are stored in static memory. For example

char s[] = "String Literal";

Here the string literal is not stored in the program. It is used only to initialize the array.

const char *s = "String Literal";

Here the string literal is stored in static memory of the program and has type const char[15].

[RastaWolf]

Great explanation.

Thanks vlad!

[Cubbi]

all string literals are stored in static memory (although compilers are permitted to optimize them out when possible)