When you call a function, what actually happens is that function gets its own chunk of memory that's identical in size to the data type that it expects.

当你调用一个函数，实际上发生的是,函数得到了自己的内存块，相同的类型,是占有一样大小的内存的。

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Conceptually, it's put at the top of my chunk of RAM, -- below it, goes initialized and uninitialized data -- - this is a fancy way of saying global variables come next -- and below that, comes what's called the heap.

概念上，它放置在内存块的顶端，在下面，已初始化的和未初始化的数据-,这是一种指明紧随其后的全局变量的设想方式-,在后来，引入了一个叫做堆的东西。

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