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authorTaylor Holberton <taylorcholberton@gmail.com>2018-09-02 14:16:56 (GMT)
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Help: Clarify cmake_host_system_information memory units
The memory size query implementations report in units of one mebibyte (2^20). Clarify the unit in the documentation because "megabyte" might also be interpreted as 10^6.
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@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ Key Description
``NUMBER_OF_PHYSICAL_CORES`` Number of physical cores
``HOSTNAME`` Hostname
``FQDN`` Fully qualified domain name
-``TOTAL_VIRTUAL_MEMORY`` Total virtual memory in megabytes
-``AVAILABLE_VIRTUAL_MEMORY`` Available virtual memory in megabytes
-``TOTAL_PHYSICAL_MEMORY`` Total physical memory in megabytes
-``AVAILABLE_PHYSICAL_MEMORY`` Available physical memory in megabytes
+``TOTAL_VIRTUAL_MEMORY`` Total virtual memory in MiB [#mebibytes]_
+``AVAILABLE_VIRTUAL_MEMORY`` Available virtual memory in MiB [#mebibytes]_
+``TOTAL_PHYSICAL_MEMORY`` Total physical memory in MiB [#mebibytes]_
+``AVAILABLE_PHYSICAL_MEMORY`` Available physical memory in MiB [#mebibytes]_
``IS_64BIT`` One if processor is 64Bit
``HAS_FPU`` One if processor has floating point unit
``HAS_MMX`` One if processor supports MMX instructions
@@ -44,3 +44,7 @@ Key Description
``OS_VERSION`` The OS build ID
``OS_PLATFORM`` See :variable:`CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR`
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+.. rubric:: Footnotes
+
+.. [#mebibytes] One MiB (mebibyte) is equal to 1024x1024 bytes.