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Stack vs. heap?

Subject: Stack vs. heap?
From: Martin Doherty <martin.doherty@undisclosed.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:32:19 -0400
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I believe I thoroughly understand the operation of a stack, but the term"heap" is a mystery. I know it's used in UCSD/Apple Pascal for memorymanagement functions of some kind; can anyone explain to me what a heapis in general concept, and what it's used for in Pascal?


Thanks
Martin

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