Why are two different concepts both called "heap"?

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Published on 2009-11-09T04:12:57Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 3:42 UTC
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Why are the runtime heap used for dynamic memory allocation in C-style languages and the data structure both called "the heap"? Is there some relation?

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