memory allocation in Stack and Heap

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I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking, but I’ll try my best to answer.

The following declares a variable i on the stack:

int i;

When I ask for an address using &i I get the actual location on the stack.

When I allocate something dynamically using malloc, there are actually TWO pieces of data being stored. The dynamic memory is allocated on the heap, and the pointer itself is allocated on the stack. So in this code:

int* j = malloc(sizeof(int));

This is allocating space on the heap for an integer. It’s also allocating space on the stack for a pointer (j). The variable j‘s value is set to the address returned by malloc.

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