Handling Huge Multidimensional Arrays in C++

Question

I\'m designing a game in C++ similar to Minecraft that holds an enormous amount of terrain data in memory. In general, I want to store an array in memory that is [5][4][5][50][

Answer 1

If you want the class created on the heap, create it with new:

Child * c = new Child;

and then of course delete it, or better still use a smart pointer.