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From: myskin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su (Vyacheslav O. Myskin)
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Subject: Re: How much free memory?
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 03:37:56 GMT
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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