X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <3C8CD04E.5050105@vif.com> From: Sahab Yazdani Organization: PheonixSoft Interactive User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020307 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: new/malloc and delete/free Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: www.vif.com!unknown AT ip216-239-69-198 DOT vif DOT net X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b4 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:43:52 CST X-Trace: sv3-1zyDIGgSmLHWWvQRUur6EhNfNhlmaAXwc27eEgDafXcbJqEjdwq2Qys2pEOGCNml/+i7Fts4KpXUIz3!d9q7+0GeMsyzRcoCq5iSpKSTosaX+osXJKkGygooV6GWWUe2Wc4mOYE= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT GigaNews DOT Com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:43:52 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com okay i've been using both c/c++ for a while, but this question just occured to me now, what exactly is the difference between new and malloc and delete and free. the book that I have on C++ says that new/delete operate on the heap. so what exactly is a heap? is it just RAM? and what difference does that have from C's malloc/free combo? and finally, is there a reason why I should use one combo over the other?? thanks for any help. -- ************************************************************** * Sahab Yazdani * "Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of * * Thornhill S.S * thermodynamics!" - Homer Simpson * ************************************************************** * http://pheonixsoft.virtualave.net/ * :) * **************************************************************