At what exact moment is a local variable allocated storage?

Question

Suppose we have the following:

void print()
{
     int a;  // declaration
     a = 9;
     cout << a << endl;
}

int main ()
{
     print();
}
         


        

Answer 1

This will be compiler dependent, but typically the variable int a will be allocated on the stack at the time the function is called.