On Monday 14 February 2005 01:46, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Remi Vanicat <remi.vanicat@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Then you have to look to the Gc module of the stdlib, in particular
> > the Gc.stat function
>
> Thanks Remi, the heap_words field of the stat record seems to be
> what I want. However sicne that field is in words, I'm looking
> for a way to figure out the word_size (4 vs 8 bytes) so I can
> do a calculation that is correct on 32 and 64 but systems.
>
> Any further clues?

You'll be wanting Sys.word_size:

"Size of one word on the machine currently executing the Caml program, in 
bits: 32 or 64."

:-)

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.