new[]
doesn't support change the size of allocated memory, does it?
For example, I allocated memory with new[]
for buffer (array of char) and I want to get the additional memory.
Should I use malloc
/realloc
instead in this case?
new
does not support that.
You can mimic the behavior of realloc
manually using new
, delete
and memcpy
.
By the way, you should always use the same family of methods i.e. either malloc
/ realloc
/ free
or new
/ delete
, and not mix realloc
with new
/ delete
. See for example the FMM errors reported by Purify.