malloc to new

[Victor Bazarov]

In message <[email protected]>,

Jeff wrote:

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hash_t *pt_htable = (hash_t *) new char[g_TTable_size*sizeof(hash_t)];

a) There is no need to cast the result.

As he wrote it, there is :-( He's allocating chars, not hash_t's.

You're right. I just didn't look! Damn...

 

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Gianni Mariani:

Why ?

It's not a good idea to have global variables.

Isn't it pointless to dynamically allocate const sized arrays ?

In general, not necessarily (lifetime, size, number of them).

In the OP's case I don't know.

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