9
Structures, Unions, Enumerations and Bit-Fields
Learning Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn about:
- User-defined data types
- Structures
- How to define new data types using structures
- How to declare objects of the newly created structure type
- Various operations that can be applied on the objects of a structure type
- Arrays, pointers, functions and structures used in conjunction
- Creating syntactically convenient name for user-defined types
- Unions
- Difference between structures and unions
- Application of unions in interrupt programming
- Enumerations
- Storing information less than a byte by making use of bit-fields
9.1 Introduction
In previous chapters, you have seen that C language provides a rich set of primitive and derived data types ...
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