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    <p>In C, as in all other languages, lexically scoped variables, such as <code>i</code> here, are only valid within their scopes -- the scope of <code>i</code> is from its declaration through the closing brace of the function. When exactly they are freed is often not specified, but in practical C implementations local variables are allocated on the call stack and their memory is reused once the function returns.</p> <p>Consider something like</p> <pre><code>int function() { int i; // beginning of i's scope { int j; // beginning of j's scope ... } // end of j's scope { int k; // beginning of k's scope ... } // end of k's scope return 0; // all locals of the function are deallocated by the time it is exited } // end of i's scope </code></pre> <p>Scope determines when the variables can be accessed by name and, for local (<code>auto</code>) variables, when their content can be validly accessed (e.g., if you set a pointer to the address of a local variable, dereferencing the pointer outside the variable's scope is undefined behavior). Deallocation is a somewhat different matter ... most implementations won't do anything at the end of j or k's scope to "deallocate" them, although they will likely reuse the same memory for both variables. When <code>function</code> returns, most implementations will "pop" all locals off the stack, along with the return address, by a single decrement of the stack pointer, in effect "deallocating" their memory ... although the memory is still right there on the stack, ready to be "allocated" to the next function that is called.</p> <p>Note that the terminology of your question is somewhat confused ... variables have scope, but it's memory, not variables, that is allocated and deallocated. Some variables may not even have any memory allocated for them if, for instance, they are constants or are never used in the program. And only the memory for local variables is allocated or freed as described above ... the memory for static and file scope variables is never freed, and only allocated when the program is loaded. And there is other memory -- heap memory -- that is explicitly allocated and freed by your program (via calls to malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup/free etc.). But although heap memory can be <em>referenced</em> by pointer variables, the memory for the pointer variables themselves consists just of the reference (memory address), with the variables having either local or static/file scope.</p>
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    1. COSomehow the only exact answer, so far. As it's pointing out the difference between scope (giving an object's lifetime) and deallocation of an object.
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    2. COWhat @alk said. All the other answers just talked about scope, which I already knew. I was asking about deallocation and you answered it perfectly. Thank you.
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