What is the difference between new/delete and malloc/free?

Question

What is the difference between new/delete and malloc/free?

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Answer 1

new/delete is C++, malloc/free comes from good old C.

In C++, new calls an objects constructor and delete calls the destructor.

malloc and free, coming from the dark ages before OO, only allocate and free the memory, without executing any code of the object.