From: rs AT redplanet DOT com DOT cy (Rotes Sapiens) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: mem alloc taking up power of 2 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:25:50 GMT Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au P/L, Adelaide, Australia Lines: 9 Message-ID: <33cc4f06.4823733@192.189.54.145> NNTP-Posting-Host: spider31.cobweb.com.au To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk When I malloc a structure that takes up say 34k, djgpp or dpmi takes 64k, a loss of 20k. So if I allocate 32 structures, I lose 640k. Is there any way of stopping malloc from rounding up the memory alloc to the nearest power of 2 when it takes the memory? I can't see anything in the faq about it. Does anyone know where this !@#$%! six wheeled robot came from?