Does a garbage collector collect stack memory, hea

Question

I read lot of articles about garbage collection and almost all article tells about heap memory. so my question is "garbage collection collects stack memory or heap memory or both".

Answer 1

You don't cite any particular technologies, but the use is fairly typical across languages.

The garbage collector only works on the managed heap. There may be multiple heaps in a single process, some of which are not garbage collected.

Variables allocated on the stack are deallocated when a method returns. The garbage colletor will use those variables to find live references, but it will not collect the memory.

Answer 2

At least in java, stack will be automatically de-allocated as you leave that stack frame, so there is no need to garbage collect.

I'm a java programmer so I don't have this problem, but in fact in C++, (I heard that) you will have to be careful with this because you can allocate objects on stack, and you can leave that stack frame, the object will be de-allocated and you can not use it anymore, etc.