Assign multiple values to array in C

Question

Is there any way to do this in a condensed form?

GLfloat coordinates[8]; ... coordinates[0] = 1.0f; coordinates[1] = 0.0f; coordinates[2] = 1.0f; coordinates[3] = 1.0f; coordinates[4] = 0.0f; coordinates[5] = 1.0f; coordinates[6] = 0.0f; coordinates[7] = 0.0f; return coordinates; 

Something like coordinates = {1.0f, ...};?

Answer 1

If you really to assign values (as opposed to initialize), you can do it like this:

 GLfloat coordinates[8];   static const GLfloat coordinates_defaults[8] = {1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f ....};  ...   memcpy(coordinates, coordinates_defaults, sizeof(coordinates_defaults));   return coordinates;  

Answer 2

Although in your case, just plain initialization will do, there's a trick to wrap the array into a struct (which can be initialized after declaration).

For example:

struct foo {   GLfloat arr[10]; }; ... struct foo foo; foo = (struct foo) { .arr = {1.0, ... } };