From:	"Alexei A. Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: allocated memory size
Date:	Fri, 19 May 2000 10:39:03 +0400
Organization:	MTU-Intel ISP
Lines:	26
Message-ID:	<3924E187.CB75ED81@mtu-net.ru>
References:	<39249FAE DOT F0428E1F AT fujixerox DOT co DOT jp>
NNTP-Posting-Host:	ppp108-3.dialup.mtu-net.ru
Mime-Version:	1.0
X-Trace:	gavrilo.mtu.ru 958718793 41367 212.188.108.3 (19 May 2000 06:46:33 GMT)
X-Complaints-To:	usenet-abuse AT mtu DOT ru
NNTP-Posting-Date:	19 May 2000 06:46:33 GMT
X-Mailer:	Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I)
X-Accept-Language:	ru,en
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Better keep a track of allocation info. C doesn't have functions returning
size of previously allocated blocks.

Good Luck
Alexei A. Frounze
-----------------------------------------
Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru
Mirror:   http://members.xoom.com/alexfru

Burgupalli Chaitanya wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am sorry if my question are too silly. I am absolute novice at
> programming in C and that is the reason for the question.
> 
> Problem:
> Is there any way I can find out the number of bytes of memory that has
> been allocated to a pointer. Keep track of it while allocating would be
> a simple solution but is there any other way.
> 
> I hope you would all bear with me during my first steps in C. Thank You
> 
> Chaitanya B

- Raw text -