Hi !
I think he wanted to know how much memory was allocated in the malloc
request, like the _msize( ptr) function on Visual Studio, as far as I know
there is no way to do that with gcc.
Mikael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan Jager" <ivanj@netvision.com.py>
To: <redhat-devel-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: FIND SIZE OF MEMORY ALLOCATE???
> Vimol wrote:
> >
> > How to find out the size of memory allocated to a pointer???
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > int
> > MyFunc(char *str)
> > {
> > int sizemem;
> >
> > // Here how to find out the size of str memory ??
> >
> > sizemem = _____ /// One function to find out the size of str
memory .
> > }
>
> If you want the size of the pointer try sizeof(). If you want the lenght
> of the string use strlen().
>
> --
> Ivan Jager
>
>
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