Feel confused with lifetime of anonymous struct

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Here’s a recent discussion on the same topic:

Diving deep into anonymous struct literals

Anonymous struct literals are widely used throughout Zig stdlib, especially implementing vtable in all allocators. Documentation, unfortunately, has a lot to be desired and this thread carries over and expands the conversation that started in another thread that became too long. Some fundamental questions first: Where do &.{...} live? On stack, in heap, in data or text segment? How long do they live? Local, static? If I instantiate the same anonymous struct literal twice, do I get two distinc…