Global variables - accessed by every sub-program or module at all times. Always present in RAM during execution; Local variables - only accessed within the sub-program that they have been declared ...

Typically, each thread gets a copy of the local variable and it is initialized once for each particular thread when it executes the particular function.<BR><BR>If you want to have shared memory ...

At least, that's the case if you're talking about local static variables. In C, static variables appear within local procedures, just like other local variables, but they have lifetimes that span the ...