Finding the amount of free memory (Was: Optimize causes an error.)

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:48:49PM -0400, LWATCDR wrote:
> 
> And now for a simple question. How the heck to I find out how much
> free memory I have in c?

   The short answer: You don't.

> None of the programmers at my office know because we haven't needed to
> check for free memory for many years.

   The longer answer: No system with multitasking can answer that question
in any useful way because by the time the return value reaches the tasks
which wants to know, the value is already outdated.

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Rask Ingemann Lambertsen