Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:36:38 
From: "Alaric B. Williams" <DJGPP AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Reply-To: DJGPP AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
To: DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: coreleft()
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In your message dated Sunday 10, December 1995 you wrote :
> 
> On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> 
> > Is there no coreleft() for DJGPP? I see there's a go32 function that reveals 
> > things about free memory, but that's not going to work on a Cray, is it? 
Have I 
> > just not seen a coreleft() function that exists?
 
> There are functions with similar functionality (they aren't called 
> `coreleft'), but note that they only report memory which was *never* 
> allocated; memory which was allocated, then freed is not reported as 
> free.  For details, see section 15.2 of the DJGPP FAQ list (faq102.zip 
> from the same place you get DJGPP).

Yes... those are the go32/dpmi functions I was referring to - they're not 
portable and they suffer from not counting deallocated memory as observed.

So I presume there isn't a portable accurate coreleft after all. 

-- 
Alaric B. Williams (alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk)
"A man walks into a bar, right, and he goes 'ouch' coz it's an iron bar"