The Waite Group's C++ Primer Plus, Third Edition

Dynamic Memory and Classes

What would you like for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the next month? How many ounces of milk for dinner on the third day? How many raisins in your cereal for breakfast on the fifteenth day? If you're like most people, you'd rather postpone some of those decisions until the actual mealtimes. Part of C++ strategy is to take the same attitude toward memory allocation, letting the program decide about memory during runtime rather than during compile time. That way, memory use can depend on the needs of a program instead of upon a rigid set of storage-class rules. To gain dynamic control of memory, you remember, C++ utilizes the new and delete operators. Unhappily, using these operators with classes can pose some new ...