What is the difference between stack and heap memory?

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What is the difference between stack and heap memory?

 

 

 

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A. Heap memory is allocated manually by the user and is 'long-lived'. You must manually allocate it, whereas memory on the stack will be reclaimed when the memory is out of scope from where it was initialized.
 
B. Stack memory is allocated manually by the user and is 'long-lived'. You must manually allocate it, whereas memory on the heap will be reclaimed when the memory is out of scope from where it was initialized.
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