https://vishalchovatiya.github.io/tags/will-malloc-allocates-contiguously-in-memory-or-it-scattered/ Recent content in Will-Malloc-Allocates-Contiguously-in-Memory-or-It-Scattered on Vishal Chovatiya https://vishalchovatiya.github.io/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://vishalchovatiya.github.io/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.128.0 en Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://vishalchovatiya.github.io/posts/how-do-malloc-free-work-in-c/ Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://vishalchovatiya.github.io/posts/how-do-malloc-free-work-in-c/ As we know, the process can allocate & deallocate memory using malloc & free in C language. But do you ever consider what happens behind the scene ? or How do malloc & free work? Let see Allocating Memory on the Heap A process can allocate memory by increasing the size of the heap. Heap is a variable-size segment of contiguous virtual memory that begins just after the uninitialized data segment of a process and grows & shrinks as memory allocated and freed.