'initializing' error in VS2010 while initializing an array

Question

I need to assign an array of 6 arrays and it's from type set[maxSetLength]

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define maxSetLength 129

typedef short int set[maxSetLength]; 

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]){
int i;
set a={0},b={0},c={0},d={0},e={0},f={0}; // Assigning 6 Sets (Arrays) initialized by zeros
set sets[6]={a,b,c,d,e,f}; //Inserting All Sets into one Array (Array Of Arrays)
}

In CodeBlocks it compiles with no errors , in VS2010 it doesn't and these are the errors:

6 times

error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'set' to 'short'

6 times

IntelliSense: a value of type "short *" cannot be used to initialize an entity of type "short"

12 Errors overall

Answer 1

You need to use pointers (they are tricky in C). Try the following code (I've added some debug, so change it back to 0's):

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#define maxSetLength 129

typedef short int set[maxSetLength]; 

main()
{

int i;
set a={55},b={0},c={0},d={0},e={0},f={66}; // Assigning 6 Sets (Arrays) initialized by zeros
set sets[6]={*a,*b,*c,*d,*e,*f};

printf("%d\n", sets[0][0]);   // should be 55
printf("%d\n", sets[0][5]);   // should be 66

}

Answer 2

set a={0},b={0},c={0},d={0},e={0},f={0}; // Assigning 6 Sets (Arrays) initialized by zeros
set *sets[6]={&a, &b, &c, &d, &e, &f}; //Inserting All Sets into one Array (Array Of Arrays)