RE: Basic types: objects or not?

Hi John,
that is a really excellent article. So when static value types are
allocated are they boxed and stored on the heap, or just stored in the heap
as a value?

Thanks
Mark.

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

> Mark R. Dawson <MarkRDawson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Value types are stored on the stack (one of the
> > types of areas of memory allocated to a process), the stack also stores
> > function parameters when you make a function call and return pointers to
> > allow the program to know where it needs to jump back to after a function
> > call.
>
> Stacks aren't only stored on the stack, and this description has caused
> numerous people problems in the past. See
> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/memory.html
>
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