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0 pointssaagarjha6y ago0 comments

The C standard does not talk about a heap or the stack; you could implement a "heap" by handing out pointers from the top level stack frame if you wanted to.

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camgunz6y ago

Is this important? By far the common case in C is using heap allocation as implemented by your libc or crt. It's pretty essential knowledge.

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0 pointssaagarjha6y ago0 comments

The C standard does not talk about a heap or the stack; you could implement a "heap" by handing out pointers from the top level stack frame if you wanted to.

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camgunz6y ago

Is this important? By far the common case in C is using heap allocation as implemented by your libc or crt. It's pretty essential knowledge.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse