Initializing entire array with memset

Question

I have initialised the entire array with value 1 but the output is showing some garbage value. But this program works correctly if i use 0 or -1 in place of 1. So are there

Answer 1

Memset fills bytes, from cppreference:

Converts the value ch to unsigned char and copies it into each of the first count characters of the object pointed to by dest.

Your int takes several bytes, e.g. a 32bit int will be filled with 1,1,1,1 (in base 256, endianess doesn't matter in this case), which you then falsly interpreted as a "garbage" value.