GlobalAlloc()

[gigaman]

I know - but the original post didn't say how big these "chunks" are. I was just trying to get some more information. Of course, allocating a bigger piece of memory and doing your own handling of smaller memory allocation is better, just requires some additional work.

Btw, even for GlobalAlloc the documentaion says that bigger piece of memory than the requested one may be allocated.

MSDN discourages the use of GobalAlloc
maybe you should use the heap functions
hxxp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/memory/base/heap_functions.asp