Arduino tool to enumerate where RAM is being used? [duplicate]

Question

In a sketch I have, I use a few libraries and have discovered that a large amount of RAM is being consumed.

Is there a tool that can identify how this RAM is being allocated, e.g. which libraries, which piece of code?

Answer 1

I use this code for Heap memory of AVR (UNO, Mega, etc.):

int freeRam()
{
     extern int __heap_start, *__brkval;
     int v;
     return (int)&v - (__brkval == 0 ? (int)&__heap_start : (int)__brkval);
}

To show heap memory just use Serial.print("Write here a name of the function from which you print it"); Serial.println(freeRam()); anywhere in the code.

Compiler shows stack memory but not the heap, so this code helps me to find exact place where my program uses too much of heap memory. I just print it in every suspicious place in my code.

I hope this will help.