Glossary
Allocation of memory The action of acquiring a block of memory from the heap.
Deallocation of memory The action of returning a block of memory to the heap.
Dereferencing of a pointer’s value The value pointed to by a pointer.
Heap A pool of free memory. Dynamic memory requires allocate memory from this area.
Pointer A variable whose value is interpreted as a memory address. A pointer points to the value stored in the location at that address.