[vtkusers] Re: [vtk-developers] Change in DataArray to use operator new instead of malloc

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> vtkDataArrayTemplate used malloc()/free()/realloc() to allocate/free
> memory. That has now been changed to use the C++ operators new and delete.
> 
> This change will affect those who have been passing an array to the
> class to manage using SetArray() or SetVoidArray() with the "save"
> argument set to "0". Earlier, it was assumed that the array was
> allocated using malloc(), now it is required that the array is allocated
> using new[].

This is bug: #2407

http://vtk.org/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2407&pos=0

This is a very recent change in VTK, and provided a faster way to 
reallocate memory...

Mathieu