If you're going to write your own allocator, you need to respect the MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT

Raymond ChenNovember 15, 2012Nov 15, 201211/15/12

This time, I'm not going to set up a story. I'm just going to go straight to the punch line. A customer overrode the new operator in order to add additional instrumentation. Something like this: This worked out okay on 32-bit systems because in 32-bit Windows, MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT is 8, and sizeof(EXTRASTUFF) is also 8. If you ...