Question

I was wonder how malloc would allocate memory (can you tell me ?), so I tried something.

Is this a bad way to allocate memory ?

void* myMalloc(unsigned int size) {
    return (void*) new bool[size];
}

Answer 1

I hate to disagree with quite so many people recommending that you use new char[n], but I feel obliged to do so.

Since you want to allocate “raw” memory, not objects, you should really use ::operator new instead of new some_type[some_size]:

 void *myMalloc(size_t size) { 
     return ::operator new(size);
 }

Ultimately, new char[whatever] isn’t particularly harmful, but (at least IMO) it’s conceptually wrong, and I see no advantage over using ::operator new directly.