How to determine the size of an allocated C buffer? [duplicate]

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For GNU glibc:

SYNOPSIS

#include <malloc.h>
size_t malloc_usable_size (void *ptr);

DESCRIPTION

The malloc_usable_size() function returns the number of usable bytes in the block pointed to by ptr, a pointer to a block of memory allocated by malloc(3) or a related function.

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