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Message: [QUOTE="Frederick Gotham, post: 2566545"] Sekhar posted: (I'm going to use "malloc" in this example just to try to make it easier to understand.) Here is a normal use of "new": Type *p = new Type; This does two things: (1) It allocates memory. (2) It constructs an object at that location in memory. Here is a special use of "new" called "placement new": Type *p = malloc( sizeof(Type) ); /* This only allocates memory */ ::new(p) Type; /* This constructs an object at the address specified by "p" */ For info on "placement new", try this: [URL]http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/dtors.html#faq-11.10[/URL] [/QUOTE]