Statically Allocated Memory

Statically allocated memory is of the form:

char buffer[MAXSTRING];

The use of this kind of memory is discouraged except when you are 100% sure that the strings to be used will be of a fixed length. One example of where this is appropriate is for Bacula resource names, which are currently limited to 127 characters (MAX_NAME_LENGTH). Although this maximum size may change, particularly to accommodate Unicode, it will remain a relatively small value.

See also

• Dynamically Allocated Memory

• Pooled and Non-pooled Memory

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