In what cases do I use malloc and/or new?

Question

I see in C++ there are multiple ways to allocate and free data and I understand that when you call malloc you should call free and when you use the

Answer 1

The new and delete operators can operate on classes and structures, whereas malloc and free only work with blocks of memory that need to be cast.

Using new/delete will help to improve your code as you will not need to cast allocated memory to the required data structure.