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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list