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[5] new and delete were, in fact, introduced in the first version of C++ (then called "C with Classes") to avoid the necessity of manual object initialization. [ 4 ] In contrast to the C routines, which allow growing or shrinking an allocated array with realloc , it is not possible to change the size of a memory buffer allocated by new[] .
Note that realloc must be assumed to have changed the base address of the block (i.e. if it has failed to extend the size of the original block, and has therefore allocated a new larger block elsewhere and copied the old contents into it). Therefore, any pointers to addresses within the original block are also no longer valid.
The Standard C++ syntax for a non-placement new expression is [2] new new-type-id ( optional-initializer-expression-list) The placement syntax adds an expression list immediately after the new keyword. This expression list is the placement. It can contain any number of expressions. [2] [3] [6]
The current block maintains a pointer to the next free position in the block, and if the block is filled, a new one is allocated and added to the list. When the region is deallocated, the next-free-position pointer is reset to the beginning of the first block, and the list of blocks can be reused for the next allocated region.
The garbage collector works with most unmodified C programs, simply by replacing malloc() with GC_MALLOC() calls, replacing realloc() with GC_REALLOC() calls, and removing free() calls. [1] The code piece below shows how one can use Boehm instead of traditional malloc and free in C. [ 6 ]
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Naïve resizable arrays -- also called "the worst implementation" of resizable arrays -- keep the allocated size of the array exactly big enough for all the data it contains, perhaps by calling realloc for each and every item added to the array. Naïve resizable arrays are the simplest way of implementing a resizable array in C.
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