[ECOS] anybody use mallinfo?

[Richard dot von dot Lehe at gd-ais dot com]

Hi All,

I thought I would experiment to see if mallinfo is usable and maybe use it to get an idea of how much heap we're using.  I created a simple test program that spits out the mallinfo struct before a 'new', after a 'new', and after a 'delete'.  I thought that the pre-new and post-delete values would be the same, but it didn't turn out that way.

The uordblocks increases by 1008 after 'new'ing 1000 chars.  I would have thought it should be 1000, but whatever.  Then, it doesn't decrease after the 'delete []' call.  Does all this just mean that the implementation of mallinfo is not complete and I should stay away from it or am I misunderstanding something?

This is on the A&M Rattler boards if that makes any difference.

Thanks!
Rich

Here's the program and output:


<---- CODE ----->
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  struct mallinfo minfo;
  char* pChar;

  minfo = mallinfo(); 
  diag_printf("arena:%d ordblks:%d smblks:%d hblks:%d hblkhd:%d\n", minfo.arena, 
    minfo.ordblks, minfo.smblks, minfo.hblks, minfo.hblkhd);
  diag_printf("usmblks:%d fsmblks:%d uordblks:%d fordblks:%d keepcost: %d\n",   
    minfo.usmblks, minfo.fsmblks, minfo.uordblks, minfo.fordblks,
    minfo.keepcost); 

  pChar = new char[1000];

  strcpy(pChar, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.");

  minfo = mallinfo(); 
  diag_printf("arena:%d ordblks:%d smblks:%d hblks:%d hblkhd:%d\n", minfo.arena, 
    minfo.ordblks, minfo.smblks, minfo.hblks, minfo.hblkhd);
  diag_printf("usmblks:%d fsmblks:%d uordblks:%d fordblks:%d keepcost: %d\n",   
    minfo.usmblks, minfo.fsmblks, minfo.uordblks, minfo.fordblks,
    minfo.keepcost); 
  
  delete [] pChar;

  minfo = mallinfo(); 
  diag_printf("arena:%d ordblks:%d smblks:%d hblks:%d hblkhd:%d\n", minfo.arena, 
    minfo.ordblks, minfo.smblks, minfo.hblks, minfo.hblkhd);
  diag_printf("usmblks:%d fsmblks:%d uordblks:%d fordblks:%d keepcost: %d\n",   
    minfo.usmblks, minfo.fsmblks, minfo.uordblks, minfo.fordblks,
    minfo.keepcost); 
  
  return 0;
}
<----- end code ----->


Output:
arena:14955096 ordblks:1 smblks:0 hblks:0 hblkhd:0
usmblks:0 fsmblks:0 uordblks:528 fordblks:14954548 keepcost: 0

arena:14955096 ordblks:1 smblks:0 hblks:0 hblkhd:0
usmblks:0 fsmblks:0 uordblks:1536 fordblks:14953540 keepcost: 0

arena:14955096 ordblks:1 smblks:0 hblks:0 hblkhd:0
usmblks:0 fsmblks:0 uordblks:1536 fordblks:14953540 keepcost: 0


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