C/C++ Interactive Guide/c-cplusplus-interactive-guide.iso/c_ref/csource2/sclib_1/1_7/v7n7137a.txt

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      Available Memory Calculating Functions - memlargest() and memleft()

   By:    Modified by Greg Kraus from listing in C Users Journal,
          Vol 7, Number 5, page 24, author Leonard Zerman

   Date:  25 June 1989

   Compiled and Tested under QuickC 2.0 and TurboC 1.5 on an IBM-AT clone
   with all models except Huge.


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#include <stdlib.h>                  /* malloc() and free() prototypes */
#include <stdio.h>                   /* printf() prototype */

#define LARGEST-ALLOC   0xffef       /* 64K - 1 - 1 paragraph (16) */
#define SMALLEST-ALLOC  0x000f       /* paragraph (16) - 1 */
#define MAX-VECTORS     64           /* maximum number of calls to malloc() */

long memleft(void);
unsigned int memlargest(void);


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    Syntax and
    Prototype:     long memleft();
    Parameters:    None
    Example Call:  mem_avail = memleft();
    Return Value:  size of available memory from heap in bytes.
    Operation: memleft() repeatedly calls malloc() for the largest
           amount of memory possible, starting with the value returned
           from memlargest(). Repeated requests are made with this value
           until a request fails. When this happens, the allocation
           request size is cut in half, and tried repeatedly until it
           fails. This process is repeated until the request size is
           less than SMALLEST_ALLOC. Each successful request is assigned
           a vector which is placed in vptrarray() so that it can be
           free()d up when finished. A safety net is included so that
           if we run out of vector storage, we do not crash.

    Additional Source Notes:
           Depending upon application, memory model, and desired accuracy,
           the user may wish to adjust LARGEST_ALLOC, SMALLEST_ALLOC,
           and/or MAX_VECTORS.


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long
memleft(void)
{
    int i = 0;
    unsigned allocsize;
    long totalmem = OL;
    void *vptr;
    void *vptrarray[MAX_VECTORS];

    allocsize = memlargest();
    while (allocsize > SMALLEST_ALLOC {
        if ((vptr = malloc(allocsize)) != NULL {
           vptrarray[i++] = vptr;     /* request successful */
           totalmem += allocsize;     /* update total */
        }
        else
            allocsize >>= 1;          /* request failed */

        if (i == MAX_VECTORS) {
            printf("Memory too fragmented to completely ");
            printf("calculate total free space.\n");
            allocsize = SMALLEST_ALLOC; /* do this to exit */
                             /* while loop */
        }
    }
    while (i)
        free(vptrarray[--i]);    /* release all of the memory */
    return(totalmem);
}


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    Syntax and
    Prototype:    unsigned int memlargest(void);
    Parameters:   None
    Example call: largest_block = memlargest();
    Returns:      Size of largest allocatable block from the heap in bytes
    Operation: memlargest() calls malloc() initially with a request for
           LARGEST_ALLOC bytes of heap memory. If this fails, a request to
           malloc() is again made, but for SMALLEST_ALLOC bytes less. This
           process is repeated until a successful result is returned from
           malloc(). Then, if the initial call was not successful, the same
           procedure as before is used to determine where the maximum size
           of allocation is by searching between the last failure to the
           first success by 1 byte decrements until a success is again
           achieved. This gives a result accurate to the byte.
    Source Notes: Heap fragmentation during run-time may cause memlargest()
           to return different values.
    Anomoly:   When Using the Small Model, memleft() returns a smaller value
           than memlargest(). Both are correct, and differ for this
           reason. Each time we call malloc(), we get the amount of memory
           we requested, and the heap management gets a few bytes for
           management of the heap. The more calls to malloc(), the more bytes
           are used, unknowingly to us, by the heap management. So, in
           memlargest(), only 1 call to malloc() is made, as compared to
           memleft(), where several calls to malloc() are made. Thus, the
           between these two results is due to this management overhead.
           Both results are correct, but are telling us different things.
           memlargest() says we can have 1 allocation of x bytes, where
           memleft() says we can have several allocations totalling x minus
           a few bytes.


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unsigned int
memlargest(void)
{
    unsigned allocsize = LARGEST_ALLOC;
    void *vptr;

    while ((vptr = malloc(allocsize)) == NULL) {
        allocsize -= SMALLEST_ALLOC;
        if (allocsize < SMALLEST_ALLOC)
            return(0);
    }
    free(vptr);
    if (allocsize != LARGEST_ALLOC) {
        allocsize += SMALLEST_ALLOC;
        while((vptr = malloc(allocsize)) == NULL)
           allocsize--;
        free(vptr);
    }
    return(allocsize);
}


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void
main(void)           /* test driver routine */
{
    printf("Memory Available from Heap = %lu\n", memleft());
    printf("Largest Memory Allocation Block = %u\n", memlargest());
}