Win32 memory allocation with large alignment

Question

I need to allocate large regions of memory (megabytes) with large alignments (also potentially in the megabyte range). The VirtualAlloc family of functions don\'t seem to p

Answer 1

Yes, you can use the same technique. VirtualAlloc a large range as MEM_RESERVE. Find the sub-range that is appropriately aligned and call VirtualAlloc a second time on the sub-range with MEM_COMMIT.