Accessing address of a C global const variable - cannot pass immutable value as inout argument

Using Swift
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Thanks @tera, I confirm this workaround works. I guess if it is impossible, I will have to do with this workaround.

To answer your why, if I remember the context (this is an old issue I had, I am at the moment stuck on this issue) I had this use case in C:

typedef struct {
  const char* name;
  int age;
} student_t;

const student_t my_students[] = {
  { .name: "Tom", age: 18 },
  { .name: "Bob", age: 18 },
  { .name: "John", age: 19 }
};

void process_student(student_t* student) {
  (...)
}

And I wanted to call process_student() from Swift with one of the my_students.