In what cases do I use malloc and/or new?

Question

I see in C++ there are multiple ways to allocate and free data and I understand that when you call malloc you should call free and when you use the

Answer 1

new vs malloc()

1) new is an operator, while malloc() is a function.

2) new calls constructors, while malloc() does not.

3) new returns exact data type, while malloc() returns void *.

4) new never returns a NULL (will throw on failure) while malloc() returns NULL

5) Reallocation of memory not handled by new while malloc() can