the “new” operator in c++, pointer question

Question

Dumb question, but whenever you call new, do you always have a pointer?

SomeClass *person = new SomeClass();

And is that because you need a poi

Answer 1

If new completes successfully, it always returns a pointer (if it doesn't complete successfully, an exception is thrown, and nothing is returned).

The pointer is to the object that was created, or in the case of an array, a pointer to the first element of the array.