Programming in C, 2nd Edition

2

The C Declarations

Chapter Outline

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The C Character Set

2.3 Delimiters

2.4 Types of Tokens

2.5 The C Keywords

2.6 Identifiers

2.7 Constants

2.8 Variables

2.9 Rules for Defining Variables

2.10 Data Types

2.11 C Data Types

2.12 Integer and Float Number Representations

2.13 Declaring Variables

2.14 Initializing Variables

2.15 Dynamic Initialization

2.16 Type Modifiers

2.17 Type Conversion

2.18 Wrapping Around

2.19 Constant and Volatile Variables

2.1 INTRODUCTION

The programming languages are designed to support certain kind of data, such as numbers, characters, strings, etc., to get useful output known as result/information. Data consists of digits, alphabets and symbols.

A program should support these data types for getting ...