Get size of mem to free by free

H.Loom via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 5 15:49:30 PDT 2016


On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 21:25:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> malloc stores the allocation size and other information right 
> before the pointer that it returns.

TIL. Is it guaranteed for any malloc implementation ? I'm a bit 
surpised to read that. I thought these kind of trick was only 
used for aligned allocations !


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