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C++

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Torsten T. Will
June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
1093 pages
33h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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4.4    Built-In Data Types

So far you have only learned about types in a flyover—and around them, just as much fundamental C++ as was necessary to understand them.

This section builds on these basics. You now know enough about the language to understand the comprehensive explanations of all the built-in types.

In this section, you will learn which data types are available to you in C++ if you do not use #include in your program or do not use the standard library. What are the built-in data types, and what can you do with them?

Pay attention to the types of variables and function parameters in the following example.

// https://godbolt.org/z/MPPsbdq9c#include <iostream> // cin, cout for input and outputvoid input(unsigned &birthDay_,           unsigned ...
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