From:	Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: is 'ld --wrap' not for C++?
Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 1999 05:04:18 -0500
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Alexey Zakhlestine wrote:
> 
> Well.... astually AFAIK "free" and "malloc" are C-routines.... not C++
> 
> In C++ you should use new/delete

It may be preferable in most cases to use new and delete in C++, that
first line has an extremely foul taste.  The C++ standard includes free
and malloc as functions with full citizenship, prototyped in the C++
header <cstdlib>, which header does not exist in C (where <stdlib.h>
does exist).

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