Answers/Solutions to Exercises in Chapter 4, Exercise 1

E1: What is the system heap and what it is used for?

A1: System heap is the organization of the dynamic memory of a process (or program in execution). The available segments are organized in the form of heap to facilitate fast access. Thus, when somebody says "it was allocated on the heap", it means that it is a dynamically allocated item.

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