Struct initialization of the C/C++ programming language?

Question

I could do struct initialization with code:

struct struct_type_id struct_name_id = { value1, value2, value3 };

but could not with:

Answer 1

I faced a similar problem, and the solution to that was that I was trying to initialized the struct outside the function(not using the initializer syntax, but with the obj.member = VALUE; notation). It is a related problem, so posting here, hoping someone with the same question lands up here.