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

I would post this as a comment, but I don't have enough reputation. Another (perhaps dirty) way of initializing an array is to wrap it in a struct.

#include 

struct wrapper { int array[3]; };

int main(){
    struct wrapper a;
    struct wrapper b = {{1, 2, 3}};

    a = b;

    printf("%i %i %i", a.array[0], a.array[1], a.array[2]);

    return 0;
}