Cannot understand how new or malloc does work with BYTE*

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Published on 2010-03-18T07:37:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 7:41 UTC
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I trying to allocate memory for 10 bytes

BYTE* tmp;
tmp = new BYTE[10];
//or tmp = (BYTE*)malloc(10*sizeof(BYTE));

But after new or malloc operation length of *tmp more than 10 (i.e. '\0' char not in 10 position in tmp array)

Why?

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