Thread: Creating instance of a structure

Hello everyone I am trying to learn C and I am relative new to the language but I did programming in Java before.

My Problem is I have the following structure

Code:

struct FluxCapacitor 
{
    unsigned char* c_string;
    unsigned int value 
};

And now I want to write a function like this

Code:

struct FluxCapacitor* createFluxCapacitor()

In the function I want to create a new instance of my struct and initialize my attributes with random values. Can someone explain to me how to do this in c?

Thanks for your help !

You basically need

Code:

struct FluxCapacitor *newfp = malloc( sizeof(*newfp) );
if ( newfp ) {
  newfp->value = 88; // MPH needed to trigger
}
return newfp;

The caller will need to deal with the possibility that nothing was created (the function returned NULL).

*sigh*

Try it and find out.