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The Complete Rust Programming Reference Guide
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The Complete Rust Programming Reference Guide

by Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Claus Matzinger
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
698 pages
17h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Primitive types

Rust has the following built-in primitive types:

  • bool: These are the usual booleans and can be either true or false .
  • char: Characters, such as e.
  • Integer types: These are characterized by the bit width. Rust supports integers that are up to 128 bits wide:

 

signed unsigned
i8 u8
i16 u16
i32 u32
i64 u64
i128 u128
  • isize: The pointer-sized signed integer type. Equivalent to i32 on 32-bit CPU and i64 on 64-bit CPU.
  • usize: The pointer-sized unsigned integer type. Equivalent to i32 on 32-bit CPU and i64 on 64-bit CPU.
  • f32: The 32-bit floating point type. Implements the IEEE 754 standard for floating point representation.
  • f64: The 64-bit floating point type.
  • [T; N]: A fixed-size array, for the element type,
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ISBN: 9781838828103