Will this C++ code cause a memory leak (casting array new)

Question

I have been working on some legacy C++ code that uses variable length structures (TAPI), where the structure size will depend on variable length strings. The structures are allo

Answer 1

@eric - Thanks for the comments. You keep saying something though, that drives me nuts:

Those run-time libraries handle the memory management calls to the OS in a OS independent consistent syntax and those run-time libraries are responsible for making malloc and new work consistently between OSes such as Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, etc....

This is not true. The compiler writer provides the implementation of the std libraries, for instance, and they are absolutely free to implement those in an OS dependent way. They're free, for instance, to make one giant call to malloc, and then manage memory within the block however they wish.

Compatibility is provided because the API of std, etc. is the same - not because the run-time libraries all turn around and call the exact same OS calls.