Heap Memory in C Programming

Question

What exactly is heap memory?

Whenever a call to malloc is made, memory is assigned from something called as heap. Where exactly is heap. I know that a program in mai

Answer 1

Basically, after memory is consumed by the needs of programs, what is left is the heap. In C that will be the memory available for the computer, for virtual machines it will be less than that.

But, this is the memory that can be used at run-time as your program needs memory dynamically.

You may want to look at this for more info:

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c28.htm