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

In C99, using compound literals, you could do:

memcpy(values, (int[3]){1, 2, 3}, sizeof(int[3]));

or

int* values = (int[3]){1, 2, 3};

Answer 2

This works and optimizes better under gcc with -O3 (the compiler completely removes the code), whereas the memcpy forces the memory to be copied in all cases.

template <typename Array>
struct inner
{
    Array x;
};


template <typename Array>
void assign(Array& lhs, const Array& rhs)
{
    inner<Array>& l( (inner<Array>&)(lhs));
    const inner<Array>& r( (inner<Array>&)(rhs));
    l = r;
}

int main()
{
    int x[100];
    int y[100];

    assign(x, y);
}

Answer 3

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<stdarg.h>

int *setarray(int *ar,char *str)
{
    int offset,n,i=0;
    while (sscanf(str, " %d%n", &n, &offset)==1)
    {
        ar[i]=n;
        str+=offset;
        i+=1;
    }
    return ar;
}

int *setarray2(int *ar,int num,...)
{
   va_list valist;
   int i;
   va_start(valist, num);

   for (i = 0; i < num; i++) 
        ar[i] = va_arg(valist, int);
   va_end(valist);
   return ar;
}

int main()
{
    int *size=malloc(3*sizeof(int*)),i;
    setarray(size,"1 2 3");

    for(i=0;i<3;i++)
        printf("%d\n",size[i]);

    setarray2(size,3 ,4,5,6);
    for(i=0;i<3;i++)
        printf("%d\n",size[i]);

    return 0;
}