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From: | myskin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su (Vyacheslav O. Myskin) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: How much free memory? |
Date: | Tue, 04 Jun 1996 03:37:56 GMT |
Organization: | BINP RAS |
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Distribution: | world |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: > > On Thu, 30 May 1996, Vyacheslav O. Myskin wrote: > > > I'd like to know the answer too. I've browsed the list of > > memory-related functions and found nothing to get the amount of memory > > available. > > What's wrong with `__dpmi_get_free_memory_information' and > `__dpmi_get_memory_information'? I asked this question because malloc failed to allocate the block reported by __dpmi_get_free_memory_information. > You should also know that DJGPP `malloc' rounds the size to a nearest > power of 2, which might explain some failures. But most DPMI servers It really explains the values 2Mb and 16Mb that I got. Thanks. Best wishes, V. Myskin
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