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Difference between stack memory and heap memory

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What and where are the stack and heap

Where is heap memory and stack memory stored?I mean where on the harddisk?what are the limits of their size?

Solution

  • You should consider memory and hard-disk as opposites.

    Memory is the more expensive stuff that comes in sticks and is 1000x faster than hard disk.

    I don't think you'll be able to "find" the heap and stack memory the way you want to. The OS sets this up by assigning some range of memory for each ( like 0x682CFF00 - 0x681CFF00 ).