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Stack-Dynamic Lifetime

• Storage bindings are created for variables when their declaration statements are elaborated

• If scalar, all attributes except address are statically bound

• Examples:
  • Local variables in Pascal and C subprograms
  • Locals in C++ methods

• Advantages:
  • Allows recursion
  • Conserves storage

• Disadvantages:
  • Overhead of allocation and deallocation
  • Subprograms cannot be history sensitive
  • Inefficient references (indirect addressing)