dynamic memory allocation
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dynamic memory allocation
[dī¦nam·ik ′mem·rē al·ə‚kā·shən] McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
dynamic memory allocation
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. They may also perform the same operation for their applications, or they may include programming interface functions (APIs) that allow the applications to allocate and de-allocate memory as needed. See garbage collection.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
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In fact, we believe that (at least in the intraprocedural case) precise flow-insensitive may-alias analysis becomes polynomial even with arbitrary levels of pointer indirection (maintaining the restriction that there is no
dynamic memory allocation) if the number of levels of dereferencing (i.e., the maximum number of staxs in an expression) is restricted to some fixed k.
The constraint of static memory allocation is a fundamental flaw because the most general kind of computational process (a Turing Machine process) requires
dynamic memory allocation. This requirement distinguishes the Turing Machine from the Finite-Automaton in the theory of computation; the latter is characterized by static memory allocation.
The suggested improvements to this program emphasize the use of
dynamic memory allocation and the replacement of external variables with automatic variables.
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