Where do static variables go?stack/heap

[Benjamin Samuel]

Where are static variables stored? heap or stack?
(Was that a foolish question?? )

[Sanjeev Singh]

A static varaible can never be a local varibale so it goes and lives on heap.

(Was that a foolish question?? )

surely not.

[Benjamin Samuel]

thanks

[Sunil Palicha]

I guess Sanjeev Kumar meant stack!
static variables go on stack.
member variables are heap variables.

[Anton Uwe]

Hello Sunil,

i bet he ment heap.

On which threads stack do you think it would make sense to put them?

[Harish Paravasthu]

Hello all,

According to my understanding, static variables store in stack and not in Heap as only instance variables/objects live in Heap.(static variables doesnt belong to instance its class variable).
If anyone has detailed answer to it.Please post.

Harish

[siva prasaad]

Hi let us start with the basics.

Consider the Main method.
It is static right...And we observe that it is on Stack.

Hence i think whatever comes as static geos to Stack.....

Is this information helpful..

[Barry Gaunt]

When a class A is loaded an object is created representing the class. This object is an instance of the class Class. From this object you can obtain other objects representing the variables (both static fields and member fields) of the class A. All these objects are held in the heap. The only variables held on the stack are local variables of a method.

You can read the Java API for class java.lang.Class and read the Java Virtual Machine Specification for detailed information.
[ January 14, 2007: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]