[Gllug] mallinfo

[Martin A. Brooks]

- Tethys wrote:
> Since you've stated the goal is to keep track of the total amount of
> memory malloc()ed, then the sum of the two fields is what you're
> looking for. Explicitly checking for zero in arena could lead to all
> sorts of interesting behaviour. Consider the case where most of the
> memory is allocated with mmap(2), but a small amount is allocated with
> sbrk(2), for example.

The correct solution is, of course, to write your code in a language 
with automatic memory management.
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