Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:17:03 +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 Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Hbar wrote:

> Sorry for that. What I ment was that if for instance I measure 104Kb
> usually, then running again with slight modification (clearly
> unrelated to memory usage) I get 170MB as output. I thought that my
> casting choise is wrong. Maybe the program allocate memory not
> sequentially?

This might happen on Windows.  I suggest to print the two values of sbrk, 
and if one of them is close to 0xffffffff, this is the reason.