For a class without default constructor, operator new and placement new can be used to declare an array of such class.

When I read the code in More Effective C++, I found the code as below(I modified some part).....

My question is, why [] after the operator new is needed?

I test it without it, it still works. Can any body explain that?

class A {
    public:
    int i;

    A(int i):i(i) {}
};

int main()
{
      void *rawMemory = operator new[] (10 * sizeof(A));   // Why [] needed here?
      A *p = static_cast<A*>(rawMemory);

      for(int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++ ) {

            new(&p[i])A(i); 

      }

      for(int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++ ) {

            cout<<p[i].i<<endl;

      }

      for(int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++ ) {

            p[i].~A();

      }

    return 0;
}