1. The document discusses structures in C programming, including the size of structures, nested structures, and pointers to structures.
2. It provides examples to demonstrate that the size of a structure is the sum of the sizes of its members, and that one structure can be defined within another structure to create nested structures.
3. Pointers to structures are declared with the structure tag name and a asterisk, and structure members are accessed using the pointer and -> operator. Assignments are provided to reinforce these concepts.
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1. The document discusses structures in C programming, including the size of structures, nested structures, and pointers to structures.
2. It provides examples to demonstrate that the size of a structure is the sum of the sizes of its members, and that one structure can be defined within another structure to create nested structures.
3. Pointers to structures are declared with the structure tag name and a asterisk, and structure members are accessed using the pointer and -> operator. Assignments are provided to reinforce these concepts.
1. The document discusses structures in C programming, including the size of structures, nested structures, and pointers to structures.
2. It provides examples to demonstrate that the size of a structure is the sum of the sizes of its members, and that one structure can be defined within another structure to create nested structures.
3. Pointers to structures are declared with the structure tag name and a asterisk, and structure members are accessed using the pointer and -> operator. Assignments are provided to reinforce these concepts.
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1. The document discusses structures in C programming, including the size of structures, nested structures, and pointers to structures.
2. It provides examples to demonstrate that the size of a structure is the sum of the sizes of its members, and that one structure can be defined within another structure to create nested structures.
3. Pointers to structures are declared with the structure tag name and a asterisk, and structure members are accessed using the pointer and -> operator. Assignments are provided to reinforce these concepts.
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DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
ANDHRA PRADESH Name :M.Subramanyam Designation :Senior Lecturer Branch :Computer Engg. Institute :Q.Q.Govt.Polytechnic,Hyderabad. Year/Semester :III Semester Subject :Unix & C Subject Code :CM-304 Topic :Structures Duration :50 Mts Sub Topic :Size,Nested &Pointer to Structure Teaching Aids :PPTs,Animation CM304.78 1 Recap
How do you initialize a structure?
How do you assign values to structure
members? How do you access structure members?
CM304.78 2 Objectives
On completion of this period ,you would be able to
Find the size of the structure
Define structure within structure
Declare a Pointer to structure
CM304.78 3 Sizeof the Structure
Sum of sizes of its members
Example struct emp { int empno; float sal; char gender; }; struct emp e; sizeof(e) or sizeof(struct emp)=2+4+1=7 bytes
CM304.78 6 Nested Structure Structure in a structure is called nested structure Inner structure must be defined first Outer structure is defined next Inner structure members can be accessed Outerstructurename.innerstructurename.member
Complex data types can be created
CM304.78 7 Example
CM304.78 8 Nested Structure Contd…..
do pin sname d bm y
Inner structure Outer structure
Fig 78.2
CM304.78 9 Example
CM304.78 10 Pointer to Structure Pointer variable that can hold stating address of a structure variable Declaration Syntax: – struct tagname *pointervariable(s); Address of the member – &pointervariable->member Content of the member – pointer variable->member
struct sample *p;/*p is a pointer to structure*/
p=&s; /*starting address of s is stored in p*/ assume 1000 is starting address of s
p 1000 1001 1003
1000 S
a b c Fig 78.3 CM304.78 13 Example Contd…..
&p->a gives address of a i.e 1000
&p->b gives address of b i.e 1001 &p->c gives address of c i.e 1003 p->a gives content of a i.e A p->b gives content of b i.e 100 p->c gives content of c i.e 5.5
CM304.78 14 Example
CM304.78 15 Summary In this class you have learnt Size of the structure is sum of sizes of its members One Structure can be defined within another structure Pointer can be declared to a structure and members are accessed using a pointer
ptr=&cust; For referring to cname using pointer ptr,we would write a)ptr.cname; b) ptr->cname; c)ptr.name[20] d) ptr->cname[25]
CM304.78 19 Contd…..
3)If one or more members of a structure are other
structures, the structure is known as a) nested structure b) self-referential structure c) array of structures d) none
CM304.78 20 Frequently Asked Questions
Explain nested structure with an example?
Explain the concept of pointers to structures with
an example?
CM304.78 21 Assignments Write a program using pointer to structure.Define the structure with tagname state with fields statename,number of districts and total population. Read and display the data using pointer to structure Write a program for employee structure. define structure with tagname address with fields Hno,street,Mandal and district. Define structure with tagname emp with fields empno, ename, sal, designation and struct address add. address is inner structure and emp is outer structure.Read and display the data CM304.78 22
