What is Memory Allocation ? A Simple Answer.

MEMORY ALLOCATION ( DYNAMIC OR STATIC)

It all starts from a data that is stored in the memory , that data is given some memory .This Process of Giving memory is Called a memory allocation . The memory can be allocated in two manners : DYNAMICALLY AND STATICALLY .

STATIC MEMORY ALLOCATION 

-This memory allocation process reserves fixed mount of memory before actual processing takes place , and because of that , the number of elements to be stored must be predetermined . 
Such memory allocation process is  basically called as static memory allocation .

-The Arrays are allocated memory by this process only.


DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION

-This Type of memory allocation process gives allocation of memry during the program execution itself, as and when it is needed.This process of allocating memory is called  dynamic memory allocation .
-It also provides technique to release the memory , when memory is not required anymore.

-Data structures like Linked Lists and Tress use this very technique for their memory allocation.