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Every variable has a storage class that determines its scope and lifetime. These storage classes include the following: auto, register, extern, and static. Each of these classes is also a keyword that can be placed before the data type to determine to which storage class a variable belongs.

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Olsson, M. (2019). Storage Classes. In: Modern C Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4288-9_16

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