I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

Back when I was deep into building embedded control systems (and snow was always 20 feet deep and going to and from school was up hill both ways), the use of dynamic memory allocation was forbidden.

According to the C++ Standard, these four variants of operator new (new, new [], nothrow new, and nothrow new []) are the only replaceable memory allocation functions. If you really want to prevent ...