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The following example shows how to find out how much memory of a
particular type is available.

    ULONG size;

    size = AvailMem(MEMF_CHIP|MEMF_LARGEST);

AvailMem() returns the size of the largest chunk of available chip memory.

    AvailMem() May Not Be Totally Accurate.
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    Because of multitasking, the return value from AvailMem() may be
    inaccurate by the time you receive it.

The following example shows how to determine the type of memory of a
specified memory address.

    ULONG memtype;

    memtype = TypeOfMem((APTR)0x090000);
    if ((memtype & MEMF_CHIP) == MEMF_CHIP) {/* ...It's chip memory... */}

TypeOfMem() returns the attributes of the memory at a specific address. If
it is passed an invalid memory address, TypeOfMem() returns NULL. This
routine is normally used to determine if a particular chunk of memory is
in chip memory.


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