get size of malloc'd object

[Chris Torek]

In article <6922 at ki4pv.UUCP> tanner at ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) writes:
>The problem with alignments, it would appear to me, would be easily
>solved by allowing for the largest machine type, which should be
>double.

Why?

If you mean to state that in every C compiler now available, the
largest machine type is `double', then I might believe you.  But
if you mean that the largest machine type in any future C compiler
will always be `double'---well, to put it mildly, I doubt it.
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