Re: Dynamic Memory allocation

smarty wrote:
> 
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> 
> I came across a situation where i have to find the availability
> of free dynamic memory that can be "malloc"ed. May be this is
> what a memory manager does when malloc is called. Can i implement
> this as a program? How?

Just malloc what you need and check the returned value.  If it is
NULL that memory is not available.

Some non-standard systems used to have routines to return the
amount available.  Today, most systems use virtual memory, so there
is no practical limit.

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