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Detecting Incomplete Array Initialization at Compile Time?

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Found a bug related to incomplete array initialization yesterday.  The form of the bug was:

enum 
  {
  Apples,
  Oranges,
  Grapefruits,
  MaxElements
  };

int myarray[MaxElements] =
   {
   429,
   258
   //Oops, missing initializer--not intended.
   //C-language defaults to 0.
   };

Question:  Is there any way to detect incomplete initialization at compile-time?  (Any obscure feature of the language I'm not aware of?)

Caveat:  I've oversimplified the problem for the purposes of example.  Also, this occurred in an embedded system, and doing anything at runtime is off the table.

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Detecting Incomplete Array Initialization at Compile Time? "David T. Ashley" <dashley@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 11:39 -0700
  Re: Detecting Incomplete Array Initialization at Compile Time? Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-07-21 14:47 -0400
    Re: Detecting Incomplete Array Initialization at Compile Time? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-21 12:42 -0700
  Re: Detecting Incomplete Array Initialization at Compile Time? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-07-21 20:07 -0700

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