Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> Wrote in message: > On 22/02/2014 02:47, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> BASIC, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembly... A "variable" is synonym for an >> address [a box that holds things]. >> > > In C. > > int xyz = 1; > > xyz is placed in a register. What is xyz called now as it's not in memory?
Don't know why you'd assume it's a register. It could just as well be nowhere. If a later reference in the same function adds it to something else, there might not need to be any hardware anywhere representing the value 1. Once you turn on a C optimizer, the real existence of local values is not assured. -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
