Re: stack and a heap

Yes, I know, sometimes when you know something implicitly, you forget to
state it, thanks for correcting my text.

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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Terry Burns <here@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> They are both memory which is used to store objects. The stack by default
>> only stores Value types like Struct and Integers, whereas the Heap is
>> used
>> to allocate memory for reference types.
>
> That's an oversimplification, unfortunately. The stack is also used to
> store references (rather than the objects themselves), and all types
> can end up on the heap as part of other objects.
>
> See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/memory.html
>
> Note that this doesn't explain the difference between the heap and the
> stack, just what goes where.
>
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