In article <3653 at vela.acs.oakland.edu> srodawa at vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa) writes: >Non-static local variables are allocated on the stack, ... The original question concerned global, i.e., file-scope, identifiers, not auto variables. Use of the word "STATIC" is unfortunate, since in C the "static" keyword is semantically overloaded.