biosmemory

Syntax

#include <bios.h>

unsigned biosmemory(void);

Description

This function returns the amount of system memory in 1k blocks.

Note that this function will return 65535 if the system has more than 64M of memory. This is a limitation of the BIOS.

Return Value

Bytes of memory / 1024.

Portability

not ANSI, not POSIX

Example

printf("This system has %d bytes of memory\n", biosmemory()*1024);

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