Regions in an Address Space
When a process is created and given its address space, the bulk of this usable address space is free, or unallocated. To use portions of this address space, you must allocate regions within it by calling VirtualAlloc (discussed in Chapter 15). The act of allocating a region is called reserving.
Whenever you reserve a region of address space, the system ensures that the region begins on an allocation granularity boundary. The allocation granularity can vary from one CPU platform to another. However, as of this writing, all the CPU platforms use the same allocation granularity of 64 KB—that is, allocation requests are rounded to a 64-KB boundary.
When you reserve a region of address space, the system ensures that the size ...
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