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Data Types

The document discusses various C programming data types including fundamental types like int, char, float, and double. It also covers derived types like arrays and pointers, as well as user-defined types such as enums, unions, and structures. For each type, it provides details on memory usage, value ranges, and keywords. It explains how data types specify the type of value and provide instructions to the compiler for memory allocation and input/output formatting.

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Data Types

The document discusses various C programming data types including fundamental types like int, char, float, and double. It also covers derived types like arrays and pointers, as well as user-defined types such as enums, unions, and structures. For each type, it provides details on memory usage, value ranges, and keywords. It explains how data types specify the type of value and provide instructions to the compiler for memory allocation and input/output formatting.

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Programming in C

Data Types

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Content
• Introduction
• Types
• Void
• Character
• Integer
• Float
• Double
• Short
• Long
• Signed and Unsigned
• Derived
• User Defined
• Enumerate

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Introduction
• The type of valued used.
• Instruction to compiler.
• Need to allocate memory.
• Associated with format specifier.
• Format specifiers are needed to read and write value of particular type.
• Format specifiers are preceded with percentage (%)

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Types

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Void Type
• Void means nothing.
• Used when identifier is not belong to any type.
• Used in function return type.
• Keyword is ‘void’

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Character Type
• Handle single character value. Character char %c

• Value must be covered in single quotes (‘a’).


• Value ranges from -127 to +128.
• Keyword is ‘char’
• Character identifier can be assigned a numeric value in given range.
• ASCII value of character is handled.

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Integer Type
• Numerical Data type. Integer int %d

• Memory allocated is 4 bytes


• Value ranges from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
• The keyword used is ‘int’
• Used to store only positive numbers by using keyword ‘unsigned’ (0 to
65,535)

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Float Type
• Numerical decimal values. Float float %f

• Memory allocated is 4 bytes


• Keyword is ‘float’

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Double Type
• Numeric real numbers. Double double %lf

• Memory allocated is 8 bytes.


• Keyword is ‘double’

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Short type
• Used to store shorter range of value. Data Type Keyword Format
Specifier
• Combined with Integer data type. Short Integer short int %hd

• Short Integer is allocated 2 bytes of memory.


• Short Integer ranges with in -32,768 to 32,767.
• The keyword is ‘short’

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Long type
• Increase the size of type.
Data Type Keyword Format
• Long is combined with Integer Specifier
and Double Type. Long Integer long int %ld
• Long Integer allocated 4 byte Long Long Integer long long int %lld
as like default integer. Long Double long double %Ld

• Long Double allocated 16


bytes, double the time of
default double.
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Signed or Unsigned Type
• Both negative and positive values are allowed Data Type Keyword Format
by default. Specifier
• Default sing is positive if no sign is specified Unsigned Short unsigned short int %hu
in value.
Integer
• Negative Sign should be given explicitly. Unsigned Integer unsigned int %u
• The keyword is ‘signed’ to have both positive Unsigned Long unsigned long int %lu
and negative value.
Integer
• Unsigned is used to restrict only with positive
values.
• The keyword is ‘unsigned’
• Combined with Character, Integer and Short
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Derived Data type
• Derived from basic data type.
• Group more than one value in single identifier.
• Array
• Pointer

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User Defined Data Type
• New data type
• Formed by grouping basic data type.
• Enumerate
• Union
• Structure

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Enumerate Data Type
• User defined data type.
• Groups more than one constants.
• Assign name to integral constant.
• Default value of first integral constant is 0.
• Make easy to refer the value.
• The keyword used is ‘enum’
• Syntax
• enum Enumerate_Name{Const1, Const2…};
• enum Enumerat_Name{Const1=10, Const2…};
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