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Documentation is provided on the following site: http://2E0EOL.bitbucket.org/libhoratio What is the purpose of this library? It is a memory tracking tool. Although it can't detect memory over runs on pointer accesses or corruption. It can be used to detect failures to release memory (as long as it's allocated by us) and attempts to release memory which we do not own. It has an automatic garbage collection feature to free up all unfreed memory too. It should be used by the entire program to be most effective, it can provide statistics on memory left an such like too. The best thing about the MM is that it provides a central place for dynamic memory allocation in a program so we can trace all activity, an optional log mode is avialable though a define. Swapping cannot be implemented as the MM has no control over pointer-based memory accesses. This is indeed why we don't see memory overruns. If the program is going to be released even though it contains memory bugs, the traps can be turned off or passed to a handler which will only execute the serious ones. Direction: We intend to log statistics to optional back-end systems such as MongoDB, MySQL and SQLite. Although this work is ongoing, it has yet to be merged into mainline. At some point we will write a dummy library, which will allow programs which are designed around libhoratio to effectively remove the library, without being re-written. Language: Everything here is portable to ANSI C, We try our best to make this library as portable as possible and appreciate any feedback for /any/ system on which a flaw is seen, whether this is embedded or games console.