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malloc is used to allocate memory dynamically (from the system
heap), and free is used to deallocate memory that was previously
allocated by malloc. In C++, new is an operator that
is similar to malloc, and delete is an operator that is
similar to free.
However, there are important differences between malloc and
new. Similarly, free and delete are different in
important ways.