Re: Finding out minimal allocation unit

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de> writes:

> Is there a reliable way of finding out the smallest allocation unit?

You could print out the addresses of allocated objects,
and guess what's going on.  If you have access to the source,
you could read it.

If the underlying allocator is malloc(), there will typically be a
couple of words or so of extra space wasted per object, primarily due
to design flaws in the C language.  If you don't like that, then you can
write your own allocator -- look up "storage pools".

- Bob