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

If you really must do this sort of thing, you should probably call operator new directly:

STRUCT* pStruct = operator new(sizeof(STRUCT) + nPaddingSize);

I believe calling it this way avoids calling constructors/destructors.