Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:16:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Amount of Memory used by a djgpp program.
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Hbar wrote:

> Thnx, I'm using this method, but sometimes I'm getting proper numbers
> and sometimes not. Am I casting wrong? Should the *mem pointers be
> void? This is my code:
> 
> char *memi,*memf;
> memi=(char *)sbrk(0);
> //my program
> memf=(char *)sbrk(0);
> printf("\nTotal memory used %dKb\n",((unsigned
> long)(memf-memi))/1024);

It would help *tremendously* if you say what are the ``improper'' numbers 
that you get sometimes.  I'm not good enough at guessing something that 
happens out of my sight ;-)