Thread: allocating and deallocating

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    allocating and deallocating

    hi

    can sombody please tell me which is safer to use malloc and free functions or to use new and delete operators? and why?
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    new and delete. They are the standard C++ operators and they are type safe compaired to malloc and free. Also with C++ you can delete a null pointer safely. free() has unpredictable results when freeing a null pointer.
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    Read the standard
    7.20.3.2 The free function

    Synopsis

    [#1]

    #include <stdlib.h>
    void free(void *ptr);

    Description

    [#2] The free function causes the space pointed to by ptr to
    be deallocated, that is, made available for further
    allocation. If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs.
    Otherwise, if the argument does not match a pointer earlier
    returned by the calloc, malloc, or realloc function, or if
    the space has been deallocated by a call to free or realloc,
    the behavior is undefined.
    The substantial difference is that new/delete call class constructors and destructors, and malloc/free don't
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