Re: There is no point to specify both MEM_RESERVE and MEM_COMMIT for VirtualAlloc

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Monday, January 2, 2006, 1:23:22 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Changelog:
>     Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com>
>     There is no point to specify both MEM_RESERVE and MEM_COMMIT for
>     VirtualAlloc.

According to MSDN:

"To reserve and commit pages in one step, call VirtualAlloc with
MEM_COMMIT | MEM_RESERVED.
The function fails if you attempt to commit a page that has not been
reserved. The resulting error code is ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS."

Why do you want to do something that _should_ fail?

Vitaliy Margolen