Memory management

This is quite a fascinating topic and is also a big pain for any programmer who has to deal with memory-related issues such as memory leakage issues. However, since it is a big topic which needs to be covered at the intermediate stage, we will try to explain the very basics of the topic. In the earlier days, memory management used to be handled manually by all the programmers. Who could better understand manual memory management than C/C++ language programmers. New and modern programming languages such as Java and others are coming loaded with more advanced memory management mechanism, so programmers have to worry less in this area as every issue is taken care by the language garbage collection facility. We have already covered what is local scope and what is global scope are. Local scope of the function, contains parameters and variables. The complete local scope must be stored somewhere in the RAM of the computer. Language divides the RAM into two parts called run-time...