Re: [Dev-C++] Re: malloc , extra bytes ! Got even more urgent !

[veenurs <ve...@ma...>]

Hi !
Yeah Per , to quote you :

> If these limitations are bothersome, they still represents the hard
> reality.


True, I am waking up to the hard reality .Guess it's the fact that the 
first language I learnt was java .Niggles me to look for more 
One-Line-Solutions .

> YOU have to assign the size to a
> separate variable, in case you want to support dynamic resizing


Yup ! That's how it used to be at the institute .Pointers are  how I 
circumvented the problem.
It was valuable help ,all the same .Thanks !

Hi J.O. : > " Never use a strange thing (and nonportable) such _msize."
Really ? are you sure ?That's how I knew what was amiss :-).Thanks .

Hi Danny , thanks to you too . sizeof(BYTE) , or even 1 was fine there , 
I guess .

Hi Ioannis, Nice to have you coming to rescue again .Talknnig about K&R 
, can  you point
     me to a good link on Windows directory listing ( Apart from page 
2^^n on goole search, of      course - I'm already hitting the NEXT link 
furiously in the other window .)

BTW , Dev-CPP did give similar result with GlobalAlloc family of 
function too .

Thanks again .

-Rahul



Josu Onandia wrote:

> Per is absolutely right. If you need to know the number of actual data 
> bytes
> inside a buffer, you have to track it on a variable. Never use a strange
> thing (and nonportable) such _msize.
> Josu
>  
>