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 and delete are operators in c++; which can be overloaded too. malloc and free are function in c;

malloc returns null ptr when fails while new throws exception.

address returned by malloc need to by type casted again as it returns the (void*)malloc(size) New return the typed pointer.