From: "Alexei A. Frounze" 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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