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Is there a way to see if some variable is stored on the stack or the heap? (programming.dev)
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I believe I have a good understanding of what is stored on the stack(for example primitive data types) and what's stored on the heap(for example an instance of a class. But is there anyway to verify this for educational/verification of my expectations reasons?

It can be in a debugger(gdb or rad debugger or worst case vs) or directly code based(thinking something like gettype(variable) but like isstackstored(variable).

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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Another commenter said that checking if the variable's memory address is in the stack region or heap region, and that is true, but I also wanted to mention that sometimes stack variables live short enough that they're simply stored in a register instead of actually put in memory.

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