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So my embedded environment does not support allocation - everything must be statically allocated. I have a LARGE (complex) data structure that I can easily initialize with code, but it is really hard to initialize statically at compile time.

HOWEVER - RUST demands that I always declare and initialize what a pain.

I've read through this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73175571/how-to-use-a-struct-without-initializing-its-members and Google is not helping me.

a) The structure is defined in C - not rust (Think device driver structure)
b) I pass a pointer to that struct to a C initialization function (along with a device name)
c) RUST says no - I have to initialize the damn thing.

What's a workaround? The code is sort of like this:

     // My example is a network interface structure */
     #[repr(C)]
     struct network_interface { /* lots of stuff here */ };
     struct uart_interface { /* lots of stuff here */ };
     /* i have others, I2C, SPI, etc */

     /* I'd like to do something like this, note: Not initialized! */
     pub static eth_FRONT_PANNEL : network_driver_interface;
     pub static eth_BACK_PANNEL  : network_driver_interface;;
     pub static uartFRONT_PANNEL : uart_driver_interface;
     pub static uartBACK_PANNEL : uart_driver_interface;

     pub fn bsp_init_drivers()
     {
          ether_driver_initializer( &eth_FRONT_PANNEL, "eth0" );
          ether_driver_initializer( &eth_BACK_PANNEL, "eth1" );
          // other drivers here too
      }

I effectively need to tell rust:
The variable FOO is initialized by means you cannot determine.

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