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 is an operation that sets bits.

If you want to set a value use a for-loop.

Consider a 4-bit-integer:

Its value is 1 when the bits are 0001 but memset sets it to 1111