memory_management_heap_allocation.md

Heap allocation

Heap allocation consists of a few steps:

• pointer allocation on a stack
• sizeof(T) bytes allocation on a heap
• T’s constructor call on allocated memory
• the memory address assignment to the pointer
• manual deallocation using delete operator

void heap()
{
    int *p = new int(100);
    delete p;
}

void heap()
{
    int *p;
    p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));
    *p = 100;
    free(p);
}