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I must admit that my coding style is a hybrid of C and C++. I always use new and delete, but I've never bothered with templates or try/catch and I pass by reference the C way. I'm still in the habit...

Operator, yes. That's what I meant to say.

How could new call malloc? New is a keyword, not a function (like sizeof), surely? At least it is on my compiler, though it could be different on others.

As you're using C++, shouldn't you be using new? I thought malloc was made essentially obsolete with new - but I could be wrong, thought I never use malloc anymore.