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What are the differences and functions of heap and stack memory?

1st Apr 2019, 5:03 AM
MrGernae
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Heap used for Dynamic memory allocation. Ex - ln C, if you allocate memory using malloc(), calloc() functions. Stack is used to store temporary things like local variables, function call addresses etc.,
1st Apr 2019, 6:07 AM
Kuri
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Stack is working according to LIFO principle: last in first out. If you pop data from the stack you will get the last data you pushed on the stack. You can peek a first data item from the stack without to remove from the stack as well.
10th Apr 2019, 10:21 PM
Paul Schroeder
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