Dynamic Memory in C. In C, dynamic memory is allocated from the heap using some standard library functions. The two key dynamic memory functions are malloc() and free(). The malloc() function takes a ...

When a process needs memory, some room is created by moving the upper bound of the heap forward, using the brk() or sbrk() system calls. Because a system call is expensive in terms of CPU usage, a ...

When To Use Malloc In Dynamic Memory Allocation Introduction to dynamic memory allocation. A topic that I find particularly interesting, which is raised by many embedded software developers whom I ...

Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use.