How many bytes?

[joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com (Joel Sherrill)]

shannon wrote:

>There are four 32-bit members in structure Heap_Block, but the size of Heap_Block is 8. Why? Does the 8 mean 8*8-bit or 8*16-bit or 8*32-bit.
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There are two 32-bit values required to managed a block in the heap when
it is
free or in use. It takes 2 more to manage it when it is free. So you end up
with a minimum heap block size of 8 bytes out of 16 bytes used.

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