C++ use of Malloc/Realloc and Free

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

In last Wednesday's meeting we talked briefly about realloc. While there
are some good reasons to use realloc in C++, using these functions are
dangerous. First, in C++ a struct is treated by C++ as a class, complete
with constructors and destructors. In general, most C++ programmers
treat them as simply data, but C++ does give them default constructors
and destructors.  In most cases this will not be a problem, but it may
cause some problems. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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