Initialisation of Objects Syntax question

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Published on 2010-05-15T08:15:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 8:34 UTC
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When I initialise a struct in C (Node is the struct):

struct Node
{
    /* Non-Relevant code */
};

This works:

Node *rootNode = new Node();

but so does this:

Node *rootNode = new Node;

Is there a difference, and what is the difference between using () or not using the brackets?

Just off memory, I think the same applies above for C++ object initialisations. What is happening here?

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