initializing an array of ints

Question

Does anyone have a way to initialize an array of ints (any multi-byte type is fine really), to a non-zero and non -1 value simply? By which I mean, is there a w

Answer 1

One line with pointers!

for (int *p = a; p < (a + 30); p++) *p = 1;

Or if you're prematurely afraid of performance hit caused by repeatedly calculating (a + 30):

for (int *p = a + 30 - 1; p >= a; p--) *p = 1;