free store

English

Noun

free store (countable and uncountable, plural free stores)

  1. (countable) Synonym of give-away shop.
  2. (programming) A region of memory used for dynamic memory allocation, often synonymous with the heap.
    In C++, the new keyword reserves memory taken from the free store.
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