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Re: [avr-libc-dev] [Bug #2143] malloc() routines chunk smaller than requ
From: |
Joerg Wunsch |
Subject: |
Re: [avr-libc-dev] [Bug #2143] malloc() routines chunk smaller than requested |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:24:49 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
As address@hidden wrote:
> creating a memmory heap malloc function writes some bytes of header
> information for handling heap size
Can you please elaborate? I can't quite follow you, sorry.
The management information is indeed a single (16-bit) word preceding
of the allocated buffer. The user must not care about that normally
(and obviously, must not tamper with this information).
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