I’m trying to make a c++ program print out its own memory footprint. Whats

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Asked: June 3, 20262026-06-03T03:50:02+00:00 2026-06-03T03:50:02+00:00

I’m trying to make a c++ program print out its own memory footprint.

Whats a good way to print out the KB of memory a c++ program is using at the current time?

I would need it for Linux and windows…so something platform independent….

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MS

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-03T03:50:03+00:00

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I dont think there is a mutli-platform way of doing this.
But you could use macros to do it like:

#ifdef __GCC__
//linux code
#else 
//windows code
#endif

heres a link for the windows method:

and one for a linux method:

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