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

1. If your array is declared as static or is global, all the elements in the array already have default default value 0.
2. Some compilers set array's the default to 0 in debug mode.
3. It is easy to set default to 0 : int array[10] = {0};
4. However, for other values, you have use memset() or loop;

example: int array[10]; memset(array,-1, 10 *sizeof(int));