DataType in C

What is Data type in C?

Data type are storage representations and machine instructions to handls constants differ from machine to machine.the variety of data type available allow the programmer to select the type approriate the needs of the application as well as the machine.

There are three Classes of Data type

1.Primary Data type

2.Derived Data type

3.User-defined Datatype

In this topic we discussed in primary data type are available in c programming, all c compilers support five primary data type it is int,char,float,double,void the describe them are given in table.

Basic Data Types

Sr.No

Operators

Descriptions

01

char

-128 to 127

02

int

-32,768 to 32,767

03

float

3.4e-38 to 3.4e+e38

04

double

1.7e-308 to 1.7e+308

Integer Type

Integer are whole number with a range of values supported by a particular machine.generally integer occupy one word of storage.

Range and size of Integer Data Type

Sr.No

Type

Size

Range

01

Char or signed char

8

-128 to 127

02

Unsigned char

8

0 to 255

03

Int or signed int

16

-32.768 to 32,767

04

Unsigned int

16

0 to 65535

05

Short int or signed short int

8

-128 to 127

06

Unsigned short int

8

0 to 255

07

Long int or signed long int

32

-2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647

08

Unsigned long int

32

0 to 4,294,967,295

09

float

32

3.4E – 38 to 3.4E + 308

10

double

64

1.7E – 308 to 1.7E + 308

11

Long double

80

3.4E – 4932 to 1.1E + 4932

Floating Point Type

Floating point number are stored in 32 bit with 6 digits of precision. Floating defined in c by float keyword

For example float f1 = 10.01;

Void Type

The void type has no values.this is usually used to specify the type of functions.the type of a function is said to be void when it dose not return any value to the calling function.

Character Type

A single character can be defined as a character(char) type data.characters are usually stored in 8 bits(one byte) of internal storage.the qualifier signed or unsigned may be explicity applied to char while unsigned chars have values between 0 and 255,signed chars have values from -128 to 127.

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