Re: memory debugging and C++ (program keeps crashing)

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 04:38:06PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>     "Marc" == Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> writes:
> 
>     Marc> Actually, with GCC it doesn't matter which call you use.
>     Marc> New uses the malloc function.  You can free () or delete
>     Marc> memory allocated with malloc () or new.  New and delete are
>     Marc> 'syntactic sugar' for malloc and free.
> 
> You mean that very loosely, right? new and delete call constructors
> and destructors respectively. This is particularly important when you
> do stuff like delete [].

I still mean the 'syntactic sugar' part.  

 new <= { malloc ; initialize }

and so on.