C99 has compound literals which allows you to call functions that take struct values or pointers to structs like this: my_func((my_type){ .x = 1, .y = 2 })

C99 has compound literals which allows you to call functions that take struct values or pointers to structs like this: my_func((my_type){ .x = 1, .y = 2 }); my_func(&(my_type){ .x = 1, .y = 2 });