Types of Memory
Explore the types of memory used in C programming focusing on stack and heap. Understand how stack memory is automatically managed by the compiler and why heap memory requires explicit allocation and deallocation. Learn the implications for memory lifetime and how this affects program behavior and bug management.
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Stack memory
In running a C program, there are two types of memory that are allocated. The first is called stack memory, and allocations and deallocations of it are managed implicitly by the compiler for you, the programmer; for this reason, it is sometimes called automatic memory.
Declaring memory on the stack in C is easy. For example, let’s say you need some ...