Re: static, global variable memory allocation

On Feb 6, 9:40 pm, Eric Sosman <Eric.Sos...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard Heathfield wrote On 02/06/07 14:03,:



santosh said:

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What a pointless interview question!

Well, I suppose you meant to say heap instead of head. The more proper
term is free store.

So I have always been led to believe, but I can find no reference to
this term in C89 (I didn't check C99, but I certainly recall that "free
store" was the allegedly canonical term well before C99 was ratified).

Does anyone know why "free store" is given canonical status?

I've got the opposite question: Does anyone know why
"heap" has come to mean just a big bucket of bytes, while
once upon a time it meant a specific kind of binary tree
(c.f. Heapsort)?

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Presumably to differentiate it from the stack - which is an ordered
pile and the heap isn't. Interestingly, stack seems to be mentioned
more often than heap, e.g. B reference manuals contain... erm... heaps
of stack?
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