How to initialize all members of an array to the same value?

Question

I have a large array in C (not C++ if that makes a difference). I want to initialize all members of the same value.

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Answer 1

A slightly tongue-in-cheek answer; write the statement

array = initial_value

in your favourite array-capable language (mine is Fortran, but there are many others), and link it to your C code. You'd probably want to wrap it up to be an external function.