Using Designated Initializers with the Heap

Question

One can use designated initializers as shown below (for \"billy\") without issue, but when the same initialization approach is used on dynamic memory things wil

Answer 1

Use a compound literal:

*molly_ptr = ( struct student ){ .name = "molly", .age = 25 };

This is almost identical to:

struct student temp = { .name = "molly", .age = 25 };
*molly_ptr = temp;

Answer 2

You have to write:

*molly_ptr = (struct student){
                                .name = "molly",
                                .age = 25
                             };