Pointers to C data types in Objective-C?

[Durnus]

I'm using openGL ES in my iphone project, and want to use glVertexPointer, which requires an array of some number type that will be vertices. I need to declare this array dynamically because it can vary in size (I assume based on C/C++ experience) and came up with this:

...
GLfloat* lines;
lines = new GLfloat[ [touchArray count]*2 ]
//touchArray is just a NSMutableArray, nothing weird there.
...

But objective-C doesn't like it when I say "new" . GLfloat is just a typedef of float, so it isn't an object... and I'm completely lost when it comes to this. I previously wrapped a struct into an NSObject subclass just so I didn't have to ask this question, but I think it's time to get past this stumble.

How do I allocate memory to these simple data types? Or otherwise how do I make that pointer to a struct or pointer to an array?

[Durnus]

Haha, fixed it. I was mixing my C and C++, new is a C++ allocator. I could have either changed the file extension to .mm to do C++ stuff, or use malloc() and free() as C code. Anyone else wondering about this (pretty basic) stuff can visit here for more about this.