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    <p>The memory does not leak. It is not allocated on the heap. Now, there is likely 2 different memory locations involved here. </p> <ol> <li>The location where the <code>{ 4,3,1,5 }</code> initializer is stored. Typically initializers like this are stored in the data segment. In an embedded system this could be read-only flash. On a PC or whatever though, this is going to just be a RAM area that is initialized with your program image (eg. EXE) and isn't modified. After the function exits, it is still there. But it is not a leak -- just a part of your program's memory footprint (some might say static memory).</li> <li>The stack memory allocated for <code>a[]</code> in <code>PrintArray()</code> function scope. What the compiler does is allocate some stack space and then copies the values at the beginning of the function from the data segment. This is generally what takes place, so that if you modify any of the elements in <code>a[]</code>, it only effects that array for that particular function call. When <code>PrintArray()</code> gets called again, the original initializer is unmodified and available for reuse. It would be weird/unexpected if subsequent calls to <code>PrintArray()</code> initialized to something besides <code>{ 4,3,1,5 }</code> due to a previous invocation mutating the value. However, you aren't modifying it here, so it's plausible that optimizations may not allocated anything on the stack. YMMV. Assuming <code>a[]</code> does reside on the stack, it will be deallocated automatically (hence <code>auto</code> variable) upon function exit.</li> </ol> <p>Of course, <em>exactly</em> what is taking place depends upon your compiler, linker, settings (especially optimizations), and target.</p>
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    1. COThank you for the great explanation but what i was mainly interested in was the 4-int block assigned to a.What i actually want to know is if that 4-int block gets deallocated/freed for some other use or does it just sit there in the memory until the end of the program.
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