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

For initialization to a static value, I have generally considered typing it out to be preferred, as in:

int arr[30] = {1, 1, 1, 1, ...}; 

In this case, the compiler can (and usually does) spit out optimized initialization in preamble code.

Sometimes the initialization is more dynamic, as in this example:

int arr[30];
int x = fetchSomeValue();
for(int i=0; i<30; i++) arr[i] = x;

In these cases you have to code it and the general rule is to maximize readability, not minimize typing. This code will be written once and read a multitude of times.