Hey everybody,
I saw the thread for this in c++ but I want to know this for c language.
I want to write a program in c that lets me calculate the heap memory size available to malloc function as well as the amount of size currently allocated.
Can anyone guide me in the right direction...
I am using mingw on windows platform but I have no problems working on linux.
Thanks a lot.....
According to my reading, you cannot ask in a portable way for the amount of available or in-use heap. The best you can do in platform-independent C, which "best" is not really much, is attempt to (m)alloc some memory, and note if you get back a non-null pointer. C does not specify how the platform must handle heap memory (at least partly because C must work in a very wide variety of places, including firmware that doesn't have a proper OS at all). As a consequence, C also doesn't give you any way to ask about the heap's current status aside from the very crude probe I already mentioned.
The malloc() and calloc() functions return a pointer to the allocated memory if successful; otherwise a NULL pointer is returned and errno is set to ENOMEM.
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