There are two types of memory allocations.

1. Static memory allocation

2. Dynamic memory allocation

Without seeing the code it is impossible to say, however the error indicates the code has caused a stack overflow and that typically indicates a recursive function that either has no end-point or has an end-point that exceeds the limits of the call stack. Either that or you have attempted to allocate memory upon the stack when there is insufficient unused memory available on the stack.

The call stack is a fixed length memory allocation used to store thread-local variables, return addresses and formal arguments. Every thread of execution has its own call stack, but once a stack is exhausted or there is insufficient space to meet an allocation at runtime, the thread cannot proceed and thus terminates with a segmentation fault.

Contiguous memory allocation in C programming refers to the assigning of consecutive memory blocks to a process. Contiguous memory allocation is one of the oldest and most popular memory allocation schemes in programming.

Static Memory Allocation: Allocating the total memory requirements that a data structure might need all at once without regard for the actual amount needed at execution time.

Dynamic Memory Allocation: The opposite strategy of static memory allocation - Dynamic Memory Allocation, involves allocating memory as-needed.

Static memory allocation is memory allocated on the "stack" and cannot be resized after the initial allocation, while dynamic memory allocation is memory allocated in the "heap", and can be dynamically expanded and shrunk as necessary.