How to initialize const members of structs on the heap

Question

I would like to allocate a structure on the heap, initialize it and return a pointer to it from a function. I\'m wondering if there\'s a way for me to initialize const membe

Answer 1

If you insist on keeping the const in the structure, you are going to have to do some casting to get around that:

int *cheat_x = (int *)&p->x;
*cheat_x = 3;