Shorter way to initialise and allocate structs

[tender zenith]

I find myself needing to do quite often the following pattern:

T* some = malloc(sizeof(T));
some->foo = value;

This gets really clunky when my structs have lots of fields, so I'm curious is there a way to do this more efficiently?

[opal fiber]

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[drowsy radish]

The only way to improve really would be to make a function

T* new_T(int value) {
    T* some = malloc(sizeof(T));
    some->foo = value;
    return some;
}

[tender zenith]

I was planning to do that, but asked in case there was a better way

Thx!

[drowsy radish]

Happy to help

[opal fiber]

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