Proposed addition of malloc_size_np()

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sat, 2006-Mar-25 08:46:36 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>In message <44247DF1.8000002 at FreeBSD.org>, Jason Evans writes:
>>=== Proposal ===
>>Add malloc_size_np() to libc, and provide the prototype in malloc_np.h:
>>
>>	size_t
>>	malloc_size_np(const void *ptr);
>
>I'm for the concept, but wonder if it would be smarter to make it
>
>	void *
>	malloc_np(size_t, size_t *)
>
>so we can do it in one go ?

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.

-- 
Peter Jeremy