Re: Proposed addition of malloc_size_np()

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 09:19:23AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <20060325081037.GC703@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Jeremy writes:
That restricts its use to malloc() wrappers. I can also see the
benefit in a function trying to validate the size of an arbitrary
piece of memory that has been passed to it.

No you can't, because you cannot be certain that the pointer passed
to you is actually an unadultered malloc pointer.

Or even that it was 'alloc'd at all. Could be a pointer (in)to a
static or global...

--
Andrew
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