Thread: Newbie Pointer question

Hi-
What's the diffreence between doing this:

Code:

Node *temp;
temp = new Node;
temp->data=x;

and this:

Code:

Node *temp;
Node n;
n.data = x;
temp = &n;

When I use the first one, I get the expected results for temp, so I guess that's correct, but I don't understand why the second one wouldn't also work.