g++ error: ‘malloc’ was not declared in this scope

Question

I'm using g++ under Fedora to compile an openGL project, which has the line:

textureImage = (GLubyte**)malloc(sizeof(GLubyte*)*RESOURCE_LENGTH); 

When compiling, g++ error says:

error: ‘malloc’ was not declared in this scope 

Adding #include <cstdlib> doesn't fix the error.

My g++ version is: g++ (GCC) 4.4.5 20101112 (Red Hat 4.4.5-2)

Answer 1

You should use new in C++ code rather than malloc so it becomes new GLubyte*[RESOURCE_LENGTH] instead. When you #include <cstdlib> it will load malloc into namespace std, so refer to std::malloc (or #include <stdlib.h> instead).

Answer 2

You need an additional include. Add <stdlib.h> to your list of includes.