Simple C array declaration / assignment question

Question

In higher level languages I would be able something similar to this example in C and it would be fine. However, when I compile this C example it complains bitterly. How can

Answer 1

you can declare static array with data to initialize from:

static int initvalues[3] = {1,2,3};
…
if(1)
    memmove(values,initvalues,sizeof(values));