Determine size of dynamically allocated memory in C

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There is no standard way to find this information. However, some implementations provide functions like msize to do this. For example:

Keep in mind though, that malloc will allocate a minimum of the size requested, so you should check if msize variant for your implementation actually returns the size of the object or the memory actually allocated on the heap.

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