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Duplicate of: In what cases do I use malloc vs new?

Just re-reading this question:
What is the difference between "new" and "malloc" and "calloc" in C++?

I checked the answers but nobody answered the question:

• When would I use malloc instead of new?

There are a couple of reasons (I can think of two).
Let the best float to the top.

Answer 1

A couple that spring to mind:

• When you need code to be portable between C++ and C.
• When you are allocating memory in a library that may be called from C, and the C code has to free the allocation.