new operation

[NewGuy100]

What is the equivalent of new in C?. I apologize for these questions. I am not that familiar with linked lists.

[swoopy]

malloc() is the equivalent of new , and free() is the equivalent of delete . For example in C:

head = malloc( sizeof(*head) );

And there's also calloc().

[dwks]

calloc() is meant for allocating arrays. It also sets the allocated memory to zero, while malloc() doesn't.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

char *str = malloc(sizeof(char) * 80);

strncpy(str, argv[0], 80);

[itsme86]

Be careful with that code. If strlen(argv[0]) is greater than 80 then str will end up without a terminating '\0'.