I have couple of questions. My friend put across this question to me asking whether the following piece of code would result in an infinite loop... while(1) { int i; } I guess it doesnt result in an Infinite loop but instead keeps on getting executed until the entire memory gets exhausted.. Could I please get a validation?? And Could i get to know what heap memory means?? Does that refer to data segment? (if yes could i plz get to know how size of data segment is determined)??
First of all I would like to welcome you to go4expert programming forum Code: while(1) { int i; } This will be infinite loop. It will defintely result in an infinite loop for a simple reason that the variable being declared is removed from the memory when it goes out of scope and so this will not be what you are thinking. A heap is a specialized tree-based data structure. Its base datatype (used for node keys) must be an ordered set. Let A and B be nodes of a heap, such that B is a child of A. The heap must then satisfy the following condition (heap property): key(A) ≥ key(B) Data segment is something related to compiler as far as I can think of and is not related to heap memory.
One thing I'll add,- There will be memory allocation from stack-memory. The heap memory has nothing to do here.
