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- Unlike the stack and the data area, memory from the free store can
- be allocated and deallocated explicitly by a C++ program. The
- creation and destruction of objects in free store during the
- execution of a program is called dynamic memory allocation. The
- C++ language includes two operators, new and delete, to support
- this powerful feature. Dynamic memory is often used for data
- structures, such as linked lists, for which storage requirements
- can vary greatly during program execution.
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