Is it possible to allocate 7 bytes of memory and just free the first 3 bytes to form a 4 byte block, through any Windows APIs.
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Is it possible to allocate 7 bytes of memory and just free the first 3 bytes to form a 4 byte block, through any Windows APIs.
No.
But you could very well use memmove and realloc to reduce the amount of memory that is used:
But that’s most likely slower than just keeping the memory at its initial size.