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Memory Stack or Heap
which type of memory(stack or heap)is used by static and external variables?
kbjarnason
- Jul 1st, 2010
Since C has no concept of "stack", the question of whether stack or heap memory is used seems a bit unclear.Static variables come in two distinct flavours: file scope and block scope. ...
niyas15
- Mar 2nd, 2010
The static variable is stored at data section and local variables are stored at stack and dynamic allocation of data are strored at heep
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What is the heap?
The heap is where malloc(), calloc(), and realloc() get memory. Getting memory from the heap is much slower than getting it from the stack. On the other hand, the heap is much more flexible than the stack. Memory can be allocated at any time and deallocated in any order. Such memory isn’t deallocated automatically; you have to call free(). Recursive data structures are almost always implemented with...
psjetha
- Sep 1st, 2009
Heap is a dynamic memory of main memory. In main memory there are several type of memory management like fixed, static, dynamic (it is just memory area which can be used by any task or process but it ...
