re: If you're going to write your own allocator, you need to respect the MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT

@Rodrigo -- here is my quick approach:

struct EXTRASTUFF

{

   DWORD Awesome1;

   DWORD Awesome2;

};

static_assert(sizeof(EXTRASTUFF) <= MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT)

// error checking elided for expository purposes

void *operator new(size_t n)

{

 EXTRASTUFF *extra = (EXTRASTUFF)malloc(MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT + n);

 extra->Awesome1 = get_awesome_1();

 extra->Awesome2 = get_awesome_2();

 return ((BYTE *)extra) + MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT;

}

But there are probably better ones