I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs.1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems ...

Okay, I'm reading my old C++ textbooks from college and they all talk about dynamic memory allocation. We all know that when creating objects at compile time that they will be allocated to the ...

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I believe there will always be some classes of applications where using dynamic allocation, regardless of rich resources, is a poor choice. So in addition to answering whether you use or allow dynamic ...

According to the C++ Standard, these four variants of operator new (new, new [] , nothrow new , and nothrow new [] ) are the only replaceable memory allocation functions. If you really want to prevent ...