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Date: | Wed, 25 May 94 08:17:15 -0400 |
From: | dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie) |
To: | acmq AT gamma DOT coe DOT ufrj DOT br |
Cc: | djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Subject: | Re: memory allocation |
malloc stores some information just outside of the allocated range so that when you free it it knows what to do with it. I hope you weren't confusing this for the actual allocated memory. Malloc returns a pointer to a chunk of memory, just like in Unix. Any other semantics of the meaning of this memory are entirely up to the application.
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