What's best practice to use compound literals with structs and C-APIs?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-05-01 14:47, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> I use some C library that uses structs and many functions that use 
> pointer to structs as arguments:
> 
> struct A {...};
> myfunc(A *myA);
> 
> In C you can do this to get a lvalue:
> 
> myfunc(&(A){...});
> 
> In D this doesn't work and I get an "is not an lvalue and cannot be 
> modified".
> 
> What's the correct D-ish way in such a case?

struct A {...};
myfunc(A *myA);

What about doing this:

auto a = A(/* set any values */);
myfunc(&a);

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/Jacob Carlborg