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Top Forums Programming Size of memory used by a program Post 302931311 by shamrock on Monday 12th of January 2015 12:27:55 PM
Old 01-12-2015
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Not quite. It shows the size of the static data segment loaded when the process starts; it doesn't show the size of data allocated while the process is running (as in the 3 calls to malloc() in the given code snippet).
It is correct that the size command wont tell us anything about the runtime size of the heap allocated...but even accounting for malloc wont tell us how much data is allocated on the stack where function arguments and local variables are pushed...
 

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ppmdither(1)                                                  General Commands Manual                                                 ppmdither(1)

NAME
ppmdither - ordered dither for color images SYNOPSIS
ppmdither [-dim power] [-red shades] [-green shades] [-blue shades] [ppmfile] DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input, and applies dithering to it to reduce the number of colors used down to the specified number of shades for each primary. The default number of shades is red=5, green=9, blue=5, for a total of 225 colors. To convert the image to a binary rgb format suitable for color printers, use -red 2 -green 2 -blue 2. OPTIONS
-dim power The size of the dithering matrix. The dithering matrix is a square whose dimension is a power of 2. power is that power of 2. The default is 4, for a 16 by 16 matrix. -red shades The number of red shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2. -green shades The number of green shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2. -blue shades The number of blue shades to be used, including black; minimum of 2. SEE ALSO
pnmdepth(1), ppmquant(1), ppm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by Christos Zoulas. 14 July 1991 ppmdither(1)
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