Re: Getting memory size

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Hi

Here b is being used.
I want to get memory size using pointer "a"..
if I perform the same operation on pointer a it gives me 8 bytes i.e.
size of the pointer not the size of the memory allocated to the
pointer.

regards
Nimish

On May 2, 2:16 pm, red floyd <no.s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Nimish wrote:
> > Hi all
>
> > How can I find the size of memory allocated to the pointer.
> > For eg.
>
> > int main()
> > {
> >              int b[100];
> >              int *a = b;
> >              ....
> >              ....
> >              return 0;
> > }
>
> > In this function I want to get size of memory allocated to "a"
> > pointer.
> > How can this be done.
>
> size_t a_size = sizeof(b);
>
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