I would like to know why the following statements do not generate a error during compiling but they do generate segmentation fault and core dump when the program is running: char* c = new char(1024); or u_char* c = new u_char(1024); I know that the correct form of this memory allocation is "[1024]" and not "(1024)" but sometimes it occurs by mistake. The compiler is not supposed to complain about it??? Thanks in advance, Milena
