Question

Which of these operators is used to allocate memory to array variable in Java?

(a) malloc

(b) alloc

(c) new

(d) new malloc

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The above asked question is from Arrays topic in section Data Types, Variables and Arrays of Java

Answer 1

Right choice is (c) new

To elaborate: Operator new allocates a block of memory specified by the size of an array, and gives the reference of memory allocated to the array variable.