C programming language equivalent for structure initialization in C++

Question

Assuming list is some structure

list *temp;
temp = new list;

the above is in c++, does this have an equivalent in C?

Answer 1

list *temp;
temp = malloc(sizeof(list));

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free(temp);

C doesn't have the new keyword - you've got to allocate and free the memory you'd like to use manually. new also does some work behind the scenes, like calling constructors and returning the proper pointer type - malloc doesn't cover that, and has to be handled by the programmer.