Stack, Static, and Heap in C++

Question

I\'ve searched, but I\'ve not understood very well these three concepts. When do I have to use dynamic allocation (in the heap) and what\'s its real advantage? What are the

Answer 1

Stack is a memory allocated by the compiler, when ever we compiles the program, in default compiler allocates some memory from OS ( we can change the settings from compiler settings in your IDE) and OS is the one which give you the memory, its depends on many available memory on the system and many other things, and coming to stack memory is allocate when we declare a variable they copy(ref as formals) those variables are pushed on to stack they follow some naming conventions by default its CDECL in Visual studios ex: infix notation: c=a+b; the stack pushing is done right to left PUSHING, b to stack, operator, a to stack and result of those i,e c to stack. In pre fix notation: =+cab Here all the variables are pushed to stack 1st (right to left)and then the operation are made. This memory allocated by compiler is fixed. So lets assume 1MB of memory is allocated to our application, lets say variables used 700kb of memory(all the local variables are pushed to stack unless they are dynamically allocated) so remaining 324kb memory is allocated to heap. And this stack has less life time, when the scope of the function ends these stacks gets cleared.