Colin Walls, Mentor Graphics Newbury UK Abstract: In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both ...

Understanding the ins and outs of dynamic memory management is especially worthwhile for C++ programmers. C++ offers many facilities–most notably classes with constructors and destructors–that ...

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 ...