2 questions

["Michael Gong" <mwgong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all,

They are not related with gcc. But since gcc's developers are all 
experienced developers and willing to help, I would like to post my 
questions here.

1. when is the local static variable of a function get allocated ? Is it 
during the system startup or when the function is called ?

2. where does the memory used by malloc() come from ? I know they are 
from heap. So what's the memory of heap come from ?


Thanks.

Mike