Linked list node heap manager

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <427 at grenada.UUCP> rtm at grenada.UUCP (Richard Minner) writes:
>One last quick invitation to flame: Am I abusing the term "heap" here?

There are two fairly standard technical meanings for "heap".
One of them denotes a partially ordered array meeting certain constraints,
and is encountered primarily is discussions about sorting algorithms.
The other denotes a pool of dynamically allocated memory.
The use of heap in its colloquial "pile" meaning is discouraged.