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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just a little question
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.022814.9014@grebyn.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 02:28:14 GMT
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In article <1276@sicsun.epfl.ch> stauffer@masg1.epfl.ch (Laurent Stauffer) writes:
>Hello,
>I just want to know if there is a function which returns the 
>amount of free dynamic memory ? 

If you want to write a portable program, no.  There is nothing you can
count on to tell you in advance how much memory you are allowed to
malloc. You can only count on being told when you have run out, when
malloc returns NULL.

If you know more about your particular platform, and don't mind losing
portability to other platforms, then you may find something in your
OS services or compiler vendor's library that does it.
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