On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:34:21 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:

>On 20 July 2016 at 16:14, Peter Hunkeler  wrote:
>
>> Is there an interface or any other documented way to get the length of an 
>> area at a given address?
>
>I very much doubt it. I don't see anything in the LE Vendor Interfaces
>book. 
>
Mac OS has one, but that's irrelevant; not portable.

>I'm curious; what will you do with this info if it is available?
>
One might use it to decide whether a realloc() is necessary before a strcat().

W3.org uses a couple utilities, StrAllocCopy() and StrAllocCat() to somewhat
automate such management of string storage.

-- gil

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