Get System Memory in C

From: Alessandro Monopoli (tepossino_at_ammaza.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:16:53 GMT

Hi all,

I'm searching a PORTABLE way to get the available and total physical memory.

Something like "getTotalMemory" and it returns the memory installed on my PC
in bytes, and
"getAvailableMemory" and it returns the available memory in bytes.

Do you know is there's a C function, a c++ Object or anything else that
compiles in Linux and Windows to get these data?

Bye and thanks!
Alessandro

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