About default C struct values, what about this code?

Question

I\'m trying to create structs with default values. I don\'t know how to accomplish this because every code that I see, is about initialising, and I would it for the natural

Answer 1

Type initializer is not possible in C.

• A value must be stored in the memory.

• A type does not occupy memory, what occupies memory is a variable of that type.

  struct stuff; is a type; it does not occupy memory

  struct stuff aStuff; is a variable of that type; aStuff occupies memory

• Because a type does not occupy memory, it is not possible to save values into a type.

• If there is syntactic sugar to support store/initialize values into a type then there must be additional code that is inserted to assign values to every instant variables of that type (e.g: in constructor in C++). This will result in a less efficient C if this feature is available.

• How often do you need to retain this default values? I think it is unlikely. You can create a function to initialize variable with the default values or just initialize every fields with the values you want. So type initializer is not fundamental thing. C is about simplicity.