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ArmanRiazi answered on January 15, 2023 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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> The heap memory is to be used with care. Values in the heap can possibly live forever during the lifetime of the program if not freed, and may eventually lead to the program being killed by **the Out Of Memory (OOM) killer in the kernel**. At runtime, a bug in the code or mistake from the developer can also cause the program to either forget to free the memory, or access a portion of memory that is outside the bounds of its memory layout, or dereference a memory address in the protected code segment. When this happens, the process receives a trap instruction from the kernel, which is what you see as **a segmentation fault error message**, followed by the process getting aborted. As such, we must ensure that processes and their interactions with memory need to be safe! Either we as programmers need to be critically aware of our malloc and free calls.

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