For desktop applications, where memory is freely available, these difficulties can be ignored. For embedded - generally real time - applications, ignoring the issue is not an option. Dynamic memory ...

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 ...

C and C++ programmers control dynamic memory allocation. Reckless use of this control can lead to memory management problems, which cause performance degradation, unpredictable execution or crashes.