Get the address of an Objective-c property (which is a C struct)

Question

I have an Objective-C class which contains a C-style struct. I need to call a C function passing a pointer to this object member (a.k.a. property). For the life of me, I c

Answer 1

To get a pointer to the myStruct instance variable, you need to write a method that returns a pointer to that instance variable.

- (void)getMyStructPointer:(MyStruct **)outStruct {
    *outstruct = &myStruct;
}

I don't really think this is a good idea, though. Other objects should not be mutating that object's ivar out from under it, and that's the only thing you can do with a pointer to the struct that you can't do with a copy of the struct returned by value.