Malloc()

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Original post by lotana While going through a source code written in C, I had came across a usage of a malloc() function, which I had never encountered before. The general layout of it is as follows: int* variable1; variable1 = (int *) malloc(variable2 * variable3) My questions are: -What does this statement does? -How would I write this using the new keyword in C++? Thank you.

int *variable1 = new int[ variable2 * variable3 ];

variable1 = new int[variable2*variable3/sizeof(int)];