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malloc or new?

utwo007 · 2002-02-02T04:16:21

Believe it or not, I actually want to know the answer to this question, so don''t start a flame war! I just want to know what is best for reserving large amounts of data on the heap. Which would be better? char * buffer[50] = new char; --or-- char buffer; buffer = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char)); The keyword new makes a whole lot more sense to me, but I consistently see people opting for malloc(). Why is that? P.S. >> Don''t make fun of my code examples. I''m a newbie programmer and I''m doing this by memory. ---signature--- People get ready. I''m ready to play.

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Started by utwo007 February 01, 2002 08:32 PM

10 comments, last by utwo007 22 years, 3 months ago

Shannon Barber

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February 02, 2002 03:11 AM

Does "work" mean ''not crash'' or ''not leak''? It might not crash, but it''s likely leaking...

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BaShildy

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February 02, 2002 04:16 AM

I meant as not leak, but i didn''t test it thoroughly so I could be wrong. That''d be interesting if delete/free was not causing the app to crash, but not freeing the memory. I never mix and match the calls intentionally, I just one day accidently swapped them and it worked. I did some testing and it seemed to work ok, but after i was done messing around I went back to sticking with one set, in this case new and delete. This was using MSVC 6, so it may behave differently using different compilers, or different versions of msvc.

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