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I am working on an ffi crate and realized I can target a fairly old rust toolchain with little effort.
However, I need to replace this pattern:

    let mut mem: Box<MaybeUninit<sys::c_struct>> = Box::new_uninit();
    // initialize in C
    let mem: Box<sys::c_struct> = unsafe { mem.assume_init() };
    let inner: *mut sys::c_struct= Box::into_raw(mem);

Then of course, dropped with Box::from_raw

I think it could be replaced with just the following:

    let mut mem: Box<MaybeUninit<sys::c_struct >> = Box::new(MaybeUninit::uninit());
    let inner: *mut sys::c_struct = Box::into_raw(mem) as *mut sys::c_struct;

Is this alright to do, or are there better ways?
Thanks

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