Understanding memory usage reported internally by CoreNEURON

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Using ARM DDT it's possible to get a detailed report on the memory being allocated in the application using the Memory Usage tool (source: ARM DDT Documentation).
Using this tool we can validate whether the memory footprint reported by

CoreNeuron/coreneuron/io/nrn_setup.cpp

Line 1039 in 0574812

size_t model_size(bool detailed_report) {

and https://github.com/BlueBrain/CoreNeuron/blob/master/coreneuron/io/mech_report.cpp#L19 is accurate and taking into consideration all aspects of the CoreNEURON data structures.