Re: how to get size of memory allocated
On Nov 12, 11:44 am, mithun <mithunsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the Reply...yeah this was my Question... :)
On Nov 12, 3:55 am, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-10, peter koch wrote:
On 10 Nov., 06:37, mithun <mithunsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
In the following code snippet ....
#include<stdio.h>
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
class A
{
int a,b;
char c,d;
};
main()
{
A *a = new A();
cout<<"\n"<<sizeof(a);
}
The following code gives output 4 as 'a' is pointer. I want to get t=
he
complete size of object allocated ie 10. How can this be done.
I would guess sizeof A to be 12, not 10. It is trivial to get the siz=
e
of an A, but that does not give the size of the memory allocated. At
least sizeof A bytes will be allocated, but it could easily be more -
12, 16, 24 and 32 would be probable numbers.
It is also possible that "mithun" wanted something even more general:
memoryuseof(*a);
memoryuseof(std::string("foo"));
memoryuseof(std::vector(42, *a));
finding out how much "heap space" an object uses, including memory
pointed to.
(Such a thing doesn't exist, I think. Certainly not in the language.)
/Jorgen
--
// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
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I found a function in MSDN called _msize that is suposed to return the
size of a block allocated in the heap: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr=
ary/z2s077bc(VS.80).aspx
(example here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xbebcx7d(VS.80).aspx
)
It only works for pointers but as far as I have seen it reports
correctly the size of block.
Hope it helps.
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