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From: hitz@csi.uottawa.ca (Martin Hitz)
Subject: Re: new for array of int
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.160009.18119@csi.uottawa.ca>
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 16:00:09 GMT

In article <7525@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> robert@ireq.hydro.qc.ca () writes:
>	I'm looking for a way to allocate an array of integer (or
>any other type) using the operator new. I thought that the
>following line would have create an array of 10 element
>but found out looking at the c code generated that 10 was 
>assigned to the int.
>
>maint()
>{
>	int *i;
>
>	i = new int(10);
>}

While the correct form to allocate an array would be

	i = new int[10];
	
the one used here initializes a newly allocated singleton with
the argument to the pseudo-constructor-call.

Martin Hitz@csi.uottawa.ca