A Question about new vs malloc and realloc.

From: DrBob (bobrien18_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: 26 Nov 2003 13:41:32 -0800

gcc 3.3 on Mac OS X.

I need to dynamically grow a buffer by concatinating raw binary data
in chunks.

How do I use 'new' to grow the buffer size as its contents grow? I
know this can be done with realloc.. (realloc will give you a new
pointer to a new buffer that has the same contents as the previous
buffer and will free the previous buffer for you).

Perhaps there is a different class I could be using?

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