C++ Object without new

Question

this is a really simple question but I havn\'t done c++ properly for years and so I\'m a little baffled by this. Also, it\'s not the easiest thing (for me at least) to look

Answer 1

newPlayer is no dynamically allocated variable but an auto, stack-allocated variable:

CPlayer* newPlayer = new CPlayer(pos, attacker);

is different from

CPlayer newPlayer = CPlayer(pos, attacker);

newPlayer is allocated on the stack via the normal CPlayer(position, attacker) constructor invocation, though somewhat verbose than the usual

CPlayer newPlayer(pos, attacker);

It's basically the same as saying:

int i = int(3);