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};