Memory is one of the critical resources of a computer system. It is limited and can also be
exhausted. One should be conscious about the memory modules while an application is being
developed. In this chapter, we will learn about stack, the heap, dynamic memory allocation, dy-
namic objects, and calling conventions.
14.2 MEMORY MODELS
The memory model sets the supportable size of code and data areas as shown in Figure 14.1.
We need to specify an appropriate memory model before compiling and linking the source code.
Selection of the memory model is done from the option menu of the C++ editor. The compiler
option ...
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