using System;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace ARMeilleure.Memory
{
static class MemoryManagementWindows
[Flags]
private enum AllocationType : uint
Commit = 0x1000,
Reserve = 0x2000,
Decommit = 0x4000,
Release = 0x8000,
Reset = 0x80000,
Physical = 0x400000,
TopDown = 0x100000,
WriteWatch = 0x200000,
LargePages = 0x20000000
}
private enum MemoryProtection : uint
NoAccess = 0x01,
ReadOnly = 0x02,
ReadWrite = 0x04,
WriteCopy = 0x08,
Execute = 0x10,
ExecuteRead = 0x20,
ExecuteReadWrite = 0x40,
ExecuteWriteCopy = 0x80,
GuardModifierflag = 0x100,
NoCacheModifierflag = 0x200,
WriteCombineModifierflag = 0x400
[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
private static extern IntPtr VirtualAlloc(
IntPtr lpAddress,
IntPtr dwSize,
AllocationType flAllocationType,
MemoryProtection flProtect);
private static extern bool VirtualProtect(
MemoryProtection flNewProtect,
out MemoryProtection lpflOldProtect);
private static extern bool VirtualFree(
AllocationType dwFreeType);
public static IntPtr Allocate(IntPtr size)
const AllocationType flags =
AllocationType.Reserve |
AllocationType.Commit;
IntPtr ptr = VirtualAlloc(IntPtr.Zero, size, flags, MemoryProtection.ReadWrite);
if (ptr == IntPtr.Zero)
throw new OutOfMemoryException();
return ptr;
public static IntPtr AllocateWriteTracked(IntPtr size)
AllocationType.Commit |
AllocationType.WriteWatch;
public static bool Commit(IntPtr location, IntPtr size)
const AllocationType flags = AllocationType.Commit;
IntPtr ptr = VirtualAlloc(location, size, flags, MemoryProtection.ReadWrite);
return ptr != IntPtr.Zero;
public static bool Reprotect(IntPtr address, IntPtr size, Memory.MemoryProtection protection)
MemoryProtection prot = GetProtection(protection);
return VirtualProtect(address, size, prot, out _);
public static IntPtr Reserve(IntPtr size)
const AllocationType flags = AllocationType.Reserve;
private static MemoryProtection GetProtection(Memory.MemoryProtection protection)
switch (protection)
case Memory.MemoryProtection.None: return MemoryProtection.NoAccess;
case Memory.MemoryProtection.Read: return MemoryProtection.ReadOnly;
case Memory.MemoryProtection.ReadAndWrite: return MemoryProtection.ReadWrite;
case Memory.MemoryProtection.ReadAndExecute: return MemoryProtection.ExecuteRead;
case Memory.MemoryProtection.ReadWriteExecute: return MemoryProtection.ExecuteReadWrite;
case Memory.MemoryProtection.Execute: return MemoryProtection.Execute;
default: throw new ArgumentException($"Invalid permission \"{protection}\".");
public static bool Free(IntPtr address)
return VirtualFree(address, IntPtr.Zero, AllocationType.Release);