| tag |
title |
brief |
author |
requires |
group |
codes |
notes |
parameters |
examples |
| m0100 |
Free Memory |
Observe memory used by code |
thinkyhead |
M100_FREE_MEMORY_WATCHER |
debug |
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| Requires `M100_FREE_MEMORY_WATCHER`. |
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| tag |
optional |
description |
| D |
true |
Dump the free memory block from `__brkval` to the stack pointer |
|
| tag |
optional |
description |
| F |
true |
Return the number of free bytes in the memory pool along with other vital statistics that define the memory pool |
|
| tag |
optional |
description |
| I |
true |
Initialize the free memory pool so it can be watched and print vital statistics that define the free memory pool |
|
| tag |
optional |
description |
values |
| C |
true |
Corrupt 'n' locations in the free memory pool and report the locations of the corruption. This is useful to check the correctness of the `M100 D` and `M100 F` commands |
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Use M100 for development purposes to observe how much memory (particularly stack) is being used by code. Proper AVR code should avoid use of new, malloc, etc., and instead use either pre-allocated static variables or stack.