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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: califax AT wupperonline DOT de (Klaus Petzold), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:07:01 +0000
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Subject: Re: question to malloc and free
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califax AT wupperonline DOT de (Klaus Petzold) wrote:


> when I allocate a memory block with malloc and release it with free,
> how does free know how much it has to release? Stores malloc
> some information about the block?

Yes malloc stores this information at the beggining of the block.

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