Week 2 - Memory Layout of a C Program

Question 1

What are the 4 sections of a C program?

Answer 1

Code segment
Data Segment
Stack
Heap

Question 2

What is in the code segment of a c program?

Answer 2

The executable instructions

Question 3

What is in the data segment of a c program?

Answer 3

initialised and unitialised global and static variables

Question 4

What is in the stack of a c program?

Answer 4

local variables (includes arguments passed to a function)

Question 5

What is in the heap of a c program?

Answer 5

Dynamically allocated variables