Where are static variables stored in C and C++?

Question

In what segment (.BSS, .DATA, other) of an executable file are static variables stored so that they don\'t have name collision? For example:

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Answer 1

When a program is loaded into memory, it’s organized into different segments. One of the segment is DATA segment. The Data segment is further sub-divided into two parts:

Initialized data segment: All the global, static and constant data are stored here.
Uninitialized data segment(BSS): All the uninitialized data are stored in this segment.

Here is a diagram to explain this concept:

here is very good link explaining these concepts:

http://www.inf.udec.cl/~leo/teoX.pdf