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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Malloc till it fails, crashes, bug in Malloc?

I'm trying to write some code that will determin how much "free" memory the system still has. I created some somewhat speedy code, but really the simple code could just run a loop like this: ...
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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Well, I think it does hit the stack. BUT I'm not doing anything with the data, just "allocating" it and then deleting it. It doesn't seem like this should crash the CPU.

I will look into what you suggested though, seems reasonable.

I started looking at mallinfo() so far uordblks is somewhat useful as it lets me know how much memory is allocated, but I don't see anyway of determining how much is left?

It bothers me that this crashes... shouldn't crash.