[chbot] Heaps and heaps of storage

[Mark Atherton]

<http://www.embedded.com/design/programming-languages-and-tools/4416457/EMB-tm-6-15-13-Dynamic-memory-and-heap-contiguity>http://www.embedded.com/design/programming-languages-and-tools/4416457/EMB-tm-6-15-13-Dynamic-memory-and-heap-contiguity 


a while ago, someone at the group looked at me sideways when I 
expressed my disdain about the use of heaps, malloc(), free() etc. in 
an embedded environment.

this article covers some of the issues, along with some new ideas.

-Mark