[Tfug] Need help with a C++ algorithm

[Felix Tilley]

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> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:18:01 -0700
> From: Brian Murphy <murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Need help with a C++ algorithm
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> Quoting Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com>:
>> You're sure glibc's allocator doesn't have a method for
>> determining the size of an allocated block, given a pointer to it?  I would
>> be very surprised if it didn't, because then how would free() work?



I cannot help here.  But I seem to remember some old Linux text that 
claimed  malloc buffers had storage information near the pointer.

I just do not remember it.