regarding heap memory area of a process memory

[sam_cit]

Hi,

It is very much known that dynamically allocated memory is stored in
heap and stays till it is deallocated or till the program terminates. I
was just wondering in what way has this got to do with Heap name, is
there any relation with heap data structure???

 

[pete]

Hi,

It is very much known that dynamically allocated memory is stored in
heap and stays till it is deallocated
or till the program terminates. I
was just wondering in what way has this got to do with Heap name, is
there any relation with heap data structure???

A heap is something less rigidly organized than a stack.

Followup To: comp.programming

 

[Walter Roberson]

It is very much known that dynamically allocated memory is stored in
heap and stays till it is deallocated or till the program terminates.

Only in some implementations. Other implementations do it differently.
C itself places no restrictions that -require- using a heap: all that
it requires is that there be -some- way of getting memory parceled out
on demand. It could even be memory pre-allocated to the process instead
of memory that rows with need.

 

[Keith Thompson]

It is very much known that dynamically allocated memory is stored in
heap and stays till it is deallocated or till the program terminates. I
was just wondering in what way has this got to do with Heap name, is
there any relation with heap data structure???

They're two different things, but your question would be more
appropriate in comp.programming.