Hi.
I am becoming more familiar with Win32 API especially for winsock and core Windows including threads, processes, and DLL. I began learning programming about a year ago and my first and currently more proficient language is C++. I have no prior programming experience and not knowledge of C. Nonetheless, Win32 API and other Windows programming tools as well and good DOS and linux programs all make use of C run-time library.
I would like to know ways to allocate and deallocate a chunk of memory space. In C++, I am familiar with the new and delete operators. However, you have to define the data type you before allocating memory. I C, I believe you can allocate a chunk of memory (BYTE data type?) and store anything there. Furthermore, you can use function, I believe free(), to free the memory.
What are some ways to allocate/deallocate memory using C/C++ other than new/delete?
Thanks,
Kuphryn