Does a garbage collector collect stack memory, heap memory, or both?

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 bo

Answer 1

Garbage Collector In Java works only on Heap memory and not on stack memory , because of the main principal that stack works on which is ( Last In First Out).That explains it all in itself.l i.e. when the end of scope of function is reached the stack is automatically empty.