Re: get the allocated size of a vector

From:
pbozzoli <pbozzoli@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<67c28f3e-bf04-4658-902b-8c9357cac8eb@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
You can't use _countof(), it only works with arrays.
The simplest way I can think of, is to add a variable (size) to your
alloc function:

void alloc(double **ptr, int *size)
{
  int i;
  *ptr = new double[10];
  for(i=0;i<10;++i)
    (*ptr)[i]=i*0.36;
  *size = sizeof(double)*10;
}

I hope this helps.
Bye
Paolo

On 10 Ott, 12:08, utab <umut.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear,

Is there a way to get the allocated size of the val in the code below?
Actual problem is that I have a double pointer in code and its addressed
is passed to a routine which does some allocation for this pointer to
pointer if I am right in the description. I tried to reproduce a very
simple code for this. Is that possible to get the allocated size in bytes
in main or it should be done in the function itself, but in main I should
be able to perform some operations on this vector? This is actually a C
code I am trying to interface in C++.

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

void alloc(double **ptr)
{
  int i;
  *ptr = new double[10];
  for(i=0;i<10;++i)
    (*ptr)[i]=i*0.36;

}

int main()
{
  double* val;
  alloc(&val);
  // how to get the allocated size or is that
  // possible to retrieve some elements for the
  // above allocation ?
  return 0;

}

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