Re: How does free() know how many bytes to free???

phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:

I just wish fewer people would fallback on the tiresome old
"read the source code".

I didn't tell him to look at the source code, to understand the
conceptual outlines of malloc/free. He should look at the code,
to know, how the libc he uses does it actually.

I didn't write _g_libc, as he might as well use uClibc, dietlibc
or another, non glibc implementation.

This was purely aimed at the task to find out, how it's done in
the OP's production environment.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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