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  1. What and where are the stack and heap? - Stack Overflow

    Sep 17, 2008 · What are the stack and heap? Where are they located physically in a computer's memory? To what extent are they controlled by the OS or language run-time? What is their …

  2. How does the computer stores the values in memory?

    Nov 14, 2023 · The computer stores bits, the 16 bit value 0b10101010101101011 is the same as 0xAABB, just easier for humans to carry the 0xAABB around when communicating to each …

  3. How to get memory available or used in C# - Stack Overflow

    Apr 15, 2009 · Can you (or someone at all) give an example of how to use PerformanceCounter to get the system available/used memory?

  4. How are ASCII characters stored in memory? - Stack Overflow

    Mar 11, 2017 · Consider a computer that has a byte addressable memory organized in 32 bit words according to the big endian scheme. A program reads ASCII characters entered at a …

  5. Purpose of memory alignment - Stack Overflow

    The memory subsystem on a modern processor is restricted to accessing memory at the granularity and alignment of its word size; this is the case for a number of reasons. Speed …

  6. How exactly are data types represented in a computer?

    Nov 19, 2015 · 2 Really, datatypes are an abstraction that allows your programming language to treat a few bytes at some address as some kind of numeric type. Consider the data type as a …

  7. What happens when a computer program runs? - Stack Overflow

    Apr 6, 2011 · I also know that a computer program uses two kinds of memory: stack and heap, which are also part of the primary memory of the computer. The stack is used for non-dynamic …

  8. How a variable and its reference is stored and accessed in …

    Dec 24, 2018 · The simplest one is that the computer has, in a certain moment, an amount of free and contiguous memory. When a program starts, all that (free and contiguous) memory is …

  9. What does it mean by word size in computer? - Stack Overflow

    Jan 15, 2016 · (Except on computers with only word-addressable memory.) Word size is a pretty fuzzy term in modern computing, but is often related to the register width of the CPU. Knowing …

  10. How many bits are needed to address this much memory?

    Sep 25, 2011 · If your computer has 64 MB of memory and each word is 4 bytes, how many words are there in your memory? How much bits would you need to address each word (bits …