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## how to use
- run the executable
- enter how much memory you want to allocate
- i.e. "1g" = 1 GiB = 1073741824 bytes
- the limit is how much memory you have...or more. your funeral.
- confirm (y)
- wait for the program to allocate the memory
- your memory is allocated
- press ENTER or CTRL+C to free the memory and exit the program
- ???
- profit
```
usage: allocatememory -b <bytes> [-o <output file>] [-s]
OPTIONS
-h displays help
-b number of bytes to allocate (e.g. 1024, 1g, 64K)
-o file to output to
-s run silently (requires -b and -o)
-w disable warnings ("i know what i'm doing!")
```
## how to compile
- get a c compiler (i use gcc)
- get a c compiler (i use gcc or clang)
- `gcc -o ./allocatememory -O2 ./main.c`
- ???
- profit