Not really, no. Since the size is usually rouded to a nice round number _after_ the addition of the malloc overhead. And no malloc I know of allocates memory with less than 8bytes alignment.
So the average wasteage is probably smallre than 1 byte.
/ Per Hedbor ()
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2004-08-09 15:14: Subject: Image.Image
It takes a byte extra.
/ Peter Bortas (Kein Paket!)