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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Linked list node heap manager
Message-ID: <11385@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Oct 89 14:16:57 GMT
References: <427@grenada.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <427@grenada.UUCP> rtm@grenada.UUCP (Richard Minner) writes:
>One last quick invitation to flame: Am I abusing the term "heap" here?

There are two fairly standard technical meanings for "heap".
One of them denotes a partially ordered array meeting certain constraints,
and is encountered primarily is discussions about sorting algorithms.
The other denotes a pool of dynamically allocated memory.
The use of heap in its colloquial "pile" meaning is discouraged.