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Borland C++ 3.1 › <alloc.h>

farcoreleft

raw OCR

Returns a measure of unused memory in far heap.

Defined in header <alloc.h>

Syntax

#include <alloc.h>
unsigned  long farcoreleft(void);

Portability

DOSUNIXWindowsANSI CC++ only
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Remarks

farcoreleft returns a measure of the amount of unused memory in the far heap beyond the highest allocated block.

A tiny model program cannot make use of farcoreleft.

Return value

farcoreleft returns the total amount of space left in the far heap, between the highest allocated block and the end of available memory.

See also

Example

include  <stdio.h>
#include <alloc.h>
int main(void)
{
   printfC'The difference between the highest allocated block in the far\n");
   printfC'heap and the top of the far heap is: %lu bytes\n", farcoreleft ());
   return 0;

Differences from modern implementations

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Modern references

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Stable link: /3.1/alloc.h/farcoreleft/ · short form /3.1/farcoreleft/