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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 7398

Other areas of memory (besides stack and heap)?

I know the basics of the Stack, and the Heap, but are there any other areas in a PC's memory that a program can access and store temporary data?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1163

Answers (1)

Jean
Jean

Reputation: 7673

Usually, you allocate small-sized temporary variables on the stack. You request memory from the heap for larger chunks. But you can also map a file into memory.

Below is a representation of system memory by kind.
Source: this very-well explained article: Understanding Memory that should answer most of your questions.

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Upvotes: 2

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