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Not all software written in c has a heap.

• megous 8y ago
  Not all C programs have stack ether. Say Micochip's XC8 compiler for pic14 family.
  • rbanffy 8y ago
    That has to be "fun" to work with...
    • megous 8y ago
      You just can't recurse and the same function can't be called from isr and from main context at the same time. Basically, nothing is re-entrable. Otherwise it's quite fine. To be sure, you shouldn't be doing those things anyway if you have 64B of RAM and 512 words or ROM. :D
• cesarb 8y ago
  And even if it has a heap, the heap might not be available. In a kernel, the function might have been called in interrupt or atomic context; in userspace, the function might be part of the implementation of the heap itself, or a low-level function called before the heap is initialized.