In C++, you generally should use new, not malloc. The only reason to use malloc in C++ is if you have a mixed C/C++ program and C++ code needs to allocate memory that's free'd by C code.
There really is nothing gained by casting malloc in C. There are many things you can do in C that are good habits, but that's not one of them.
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In C++, you generally should use
new, notmalloc. The only reason to usemallocin C++ is if you have a mixed C/C++ program and C++ code needs to allocate memory that's free'd by C code.There really is nothing gained by casting
mallocin C. There are many things you can do in C that are good habits, but that's not one of them.