setting initial values in struct template

From: Romeo Colacitti (wwromeo_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: 29 Mar 2005 20:38:01 -0800

Section "1.2.5 Structures and Unions" of the C Library Reference Guide
(http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/1.2.html#struct)
explains that it is possible to initilize elements of all structs of a
certain type by providing an initializer when declaring the template of
the struct.

I tried it on my compiler and it's complaining. This is taken from the
C Library Reference Guide:

struct my-structure {
     int fred[5];
     char wilma, betty;
     float barny=1;
};

This defines the structure my-structure, but nothing has yet been done.

struct my-structure account1;
This creates account1 and it has all of the variables from
my-structure. account1.barny contains the value "1".

I tried this on my system, and it complained about the = 1. I must say
if this feature was possible it would be very good because a lot of
structs have flags and it would be nice to initialize them all to 1 or
0.

Can someone tell me if this is possible? I really suck at searching
through the C89/99 drafts to find answers, and can't find this on
google. thank you