From:	Apester000 AT aol DOT com
Message-ID:	<3ac7af8c.36cc6dcd@aol.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:45:17 EST
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Mime-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: free RAM available
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

>Hi,
>
>How can I get the free RAM available ?

An easy (while not entirely accurate way) is just to make a little loop
allocating memory until malloc failes.  i.e.:

char *p;
long l = 0;
do
{
    p = malloc(1024);
    if (p) l += 1024;
} while (p);

printf("Approximently % d megs of memory", l / 1024);

Regards-
Brandon Tallent
 

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