What is the best/cleanest approach to start (in a local function) a lengthy chain of nested structures where each structure just holds pointers to other structures, as seen below:
typedef struct A{
struct B{
struct C *c /* OPTIONAL */;
struct D *d /* OPTIONAL */;
struct E *e /* OPTIONAL */;
struct F *f /* OPTIONAL */;
} *b;
struct G{
struct F *f /* OPTIONAL */;
struct D *d /* OPTIONAL */;
struct H *h /* OPTIONAL */;
struct F *f /* OPTIONAL */;
} *g;
} a;
Each of the references to the nested structures link to structures that contain pointers to other nested structures (I know, it's weird!)
I believe I need to define a tmp pointer for each struct member and allocate memory for it, as well as a tmp struct variable and point the former to the latter:
B *b_ptr = CALLOC(1,sizeof(b_ptr));
B b_tmp;
b_ptr = &b_tmp;
b_tmp.itsMember1 = CALLOC(1,sizeof(itsMember1));
TypeOfItsMember1 itsMember1_tmp;
..
..
This will necessitate a plethora of local variables and excruciatingly repetitious code. Is there a better method to thoroughly initialise the parent struct?
