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		antonovka on Aug 28, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple to App Developer: Remove the Most Useful Fun... Yes -- the API (host_statistics() on Darwin) is in the public headers and is not private. Of course, it wasn't the ability to show free memory that they removed, rather, the ability to trigger OS low memory handling by allocating (nearly) all available free memory.

blasdel on Aug 28, 2009 [–]

Maybe he'll try to tell us "malloc() ain't a part of no public API I ever herd of!"

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