Does garbage collection happen when we initialize a char array with a string literal in c?

Question

When we write the following line of code in C,

      char local_arr[] = \"I am here\";

the literal \"I am here\" gets stored in the read only

Answer 1

String Literals are stored in static area. When you copy string literals to a local variable, there will be two copies: static area and stack. The copy in static area will not be deleted. There is no GC in C. But if you use a pointer in a function, you can access the string.

#include 

char *returnStr()
{
    char *p="hello world!";
    return p;
}

char *returnStr2()
{
    char p[]="hello world!";
    return p;
}
int main()
{
    char *str=NULL;
    char *str2=NULL;
    str=returnStr();
    str2 = returnStr2();
    printf("%s\n", str);
    printf("%s\n", str2);
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

So in the first function, it will print string because it uses a pointer. In the second function, the string in stack will be deleted so it will print garbage.