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WhoinventedCLanguage?
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DennisRitchiein1972developedanewlanguagebyinheritingthefeaturesofbothBCPLandBandaddingadditionalfeatures.HenamedthelanguageasjustC
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WhatarethefeaturesofCLangauges?
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•InConecanwriteprogramslikethatofhighlevellanguagesasinCOBOL,BASIC,FORTRANetc.aswellasitpermitsverycloseinteractionwiththeinnerworkingsofthecomputer.
•Itisageneralpurposeprogramminglanguage.Itisusuallycalledsystemprogramminglanguagebutequallysuitedtowritingavarietyofapplications.
•Itsupportsvariousdatatypes
•Itfollowstheprogrammingstylebasedonfundamentalcontrolflowconstructionsforstructuredprogramming
•Functionsmaybepre–definedoruserdefinedandtheymayreturnvaluesofbasictypes,structures,unionsorpointers
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Whataretheadvantagesofclanguage?
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•Easytowrite
•Richsetofoperatorsandfunctionsthatarebuilt–in
•Supportforbit–wiseoperation
•Flexibleuseofpointers
•Directcontroloverthehardware
•AbilitytoaccessBIOS/DOSroutines
•InteractingusingInterrupts
•AbilitytowriteTSRprograms
•Abilitytocreate.COMfiles
•Abilitytocreatelibraryfiles(.LIB)
•Abilitytowriteinterfaceprograms
•IncorporatingassemblylanguageinCprogram
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Whatisaheaderfile?
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Headerfilesprovidethedefinitionsanddeclarationsforthelibraryfunctions.Thus,eachheaderfilecontainsthelibraryfunctionsalongwiththenecessarydefinitionsanddeclarations.Forexample,stdio.h,math.h,stdlib.h, string.hetc.
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ListthedifferenttypesofCtokens?
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•Constants
•Identifiers
•Keywords
•Operators
•Specialsymbols
•Strings
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Whatisaconstant?Whatarethedifferenttypesofconstants?
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Aconstantisavaluethatdoesnotchangeduringtheprogramexecution.AconstantusedinCdoesnotoccupymemory.Therearefivetypesofconstants.Theyare:
•Integerconstants
•Floatingpointconstants
•Characterconstants
•Stringliterals
•Enumerationconstants
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Whatarethedifferenttypesofcinstructions?
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•TherearebasicallythreetypesofinstructionsinCare:
•TypeDeclarationInstruction
•ArithmeticInstruction
•ControlInstruction
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WhyCiscalledamiddlelevellanguage?
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CcombinesthefeaturesofbothAssemblyLevelLanguages(LowLevelLanguages)andHigherLevelLanguages. Forthisreason,CisreferredtoasaMiddleLevelLanguage.ThefeatureofALLsisthatofenablingustodevelopsystemlevelprogramsandthefeaturesofHLLsarethoseofhigherdegreeofreadabilityandmachine independence.
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Whatisthepurposeofmain()function?
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•Thefunctionmain()invokesotherfunctionswithinit.Itisthefirstfunctiontobecalledwhentheprogramstartsexecution.
•Itisthestartingfunction.
•Itreturnsanintvaluetotheenvironmentthatcalledtheprogram.
•Recursivecallisallowedformain()also.
•Itisauser-definedfunction.
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Whatismeantbytypespecifiers?
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Typespecifiersdecidetheamountofmemoryspaceoccupiedbyavariable.Intheeaseofintegraltypes;italsoexplicitlystatestherangeofvaluesthattheobjectcanhold.
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Whatisthedifferencebetweensinglecharaterconstantandstringconstant?
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•Asinglecharacterconstantconsistsofonlyonecharacteranditisenclosedwithinapairofsinglequotes.
•Astringconstantconsistsofoneormorecharactersanditisenclosedwithinapairofdoublequotes.
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Whatisaloop?
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Aloopisaprocesstodoajobrepeatedlywithpossiblydifferentdataeachtime.Thestatementsexecutedeachtimeconstitutetheloopbody,andeachpassiscallediteration.Aconditionmustbepresenttoterminatetheloop.
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Whatarethetypesofdatatypesandexplain?
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TherearefivebasicDatatypesinC.Theseare:
•void:meansnothingi.e.nodatainvolvementinanaction
•char:toworkwithalltypesofcharactersusedincomputeroperations
•int:toworkwithanintegertypeofdatainanycomputationalwork
•float:toworkwiththerealtypeofdataorscientificnumbersintheexponentialform
•double:toworkwithdoubleprecisionofnumberswhentheapproximationisverycrucial.
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WhatisthegeneralformofaCprogram?
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ACprogrambeginswiththepreprocessordirectives,inwhichtheprogrammerwouldspecifywhichheaderfileandwhatconstants(ifany)tobeused.Thisisfollowedbythemainfunctionheading.Withinthemainfunctionliesthevariabledeclarationandprogramstatement.
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WhatisthedifferencebetweenCallbyValueandCallbyReference?
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WhenusingCallbyValue,youaresendingthevalueofavariableasparametertoafunction,whereasCallbyReferencesendstheaddressofthevariable.Also,underCallbyValue,thevalueintheparameterisnotaffectedbywhateveroperationthattakesplace,whileinthecaseofCallbyReference,valuescanbeaffectedbytheprocesswithinthefunction.
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Whatisastack?
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Astackisoneformofadatastructure.DataisstoredinstacksusingtheFILO(FirstInLastOut)approach.Atanyparticularinstance,onlythetopofthestackisaccessible,whichmeansthatinordertoretrievedatathatisstoredinsidethestack,thoseontheupperpartshouldbeextractedfirst.StoringdatainastackisalsoreferredtoasaPUSH,whiledataretrievalisreferredtoasaPOP.
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Whatistheuseofa„0′character?
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Itisreferredtoasaterminatingnullcharacter,andisusedprimarilytoshowtheendofastringvalue.
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Whatisthedifferencebetweenthe=symboland==symbol?
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The=symbolisoftenusedinmathematicaloperations.Itisusedtoassignavaluetoagivenvariable.Ontheotherhand,the==symbol,alsoknownas“equalto”or“equivalentto”,isarelationaloperatorthatisusedtocomparetwovalues
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Whatisthemodulusoperator?
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Themodulusoperatoroutputstheremainderofadivision.Itmakesuseofthepercentage(%)symbol.Forexample: 10%3=1,meaningwhenyoudivide10by3,theremainderis1.
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Whichofthefollowingoperatorsisincorrectandwhy?(>=,<=,<>,==)
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<>isincorrect.Whilethisoperatoriscorrectlyinterpretedas“notequalto”inwritingconditionalstatements,itisnottheproperoperatortobeusedinCprogramming.Instead,theoperator!=mustbeusedtoindicate“notequalto”condition.
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Whatissyntaxerror?
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Syntaxerrorsareassociatedwithmistakesintheuseofaprogramminglanguage.Itmaybeacommandthatwasmisspelledoracommandthatmustwasenteredinlowercasemodebutwasinsteadenteredwithanuppercasecharacter.Amisplacedsymbol,orlackofsymbol,somewherewithinalineofcodecanalsoleadtosyntaxerror.
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CanIuse“int”datatypetostorethevalue32768?Why?
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No.“int”datatypeiscapableofstoringvaluesfrom-32768to32767.Tostore32768,youcanuse“longint”instead. Youcanalsouse“unsignedint”,assumingyoudon‟tintendtostorenegativevalues.
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Whenisthe“void”keywordusedinafunction?
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Whendeclaringfunctions,youwilldecidewhetherthatfunctionwouldbereturningavalueornot.Ifthatfunctionwillnotreturnavalue,suchaswhenthepurposeofafunctionistodisplaysomeoutputsonthescreen,then“void”istobeplacedattheleftmostpartofthefunctionheader.Whenareturnvalueisexpectedafterthefunctionexecution,thedatatypeofthereturnvalueisplacedinsteadof“void”.
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WhatisthesignificanceofanalgorithmtoCprogramming?
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Beforeaprogramcanbewritten,analgorithmhastobecreatedfirst.Analgorithmprovidesastepbystepprocedureonhowasolutioncanbederived.Italsoactsasablueprintonhowaprogramwillstartandend, includingwhatprocessandcomputationsareinvolved.
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HowdoyougeneraterandomnumbersinC?
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RandomnumbersaregeneratedinCusingtherand()command.Forexample:anyNum=rand()willgenerateanyintegernumberbeginningfrom0,assumingthatanyNumisavariableoftypeinteger.
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Whatisdebugging?
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Debuggingistheprocessofidentifyingerrorswithinaprogram.Duringprogramcompilation,errorsthatarefoundwillstoptheprogramfromexecutingcompletely.Atthisstate,theprogrammerwouldlookintothepossibleportionswheretheerroroccurred.Debuggingensurestheremovaloferrors,andplaysanimportantroleinensuringthattheexpectedprogramoutputismet.
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Whatdoesthe&&operatordoinaprogramcode?
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The&&isalsoreferredtoasANDoperator.Whenusingthisoperator,allconditionsspecifiedmustbeTRUEbeforethenextactioncanbeperformed.Ifyouhave10conditionsandallbut1failstoevaluateasTRUE,theentireconditionstatementisalreadyevaluatedasFALSE.
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Whatis||operatorandhowdoesitfunctioninaprogram?
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The||isalsoknownastheORoperatorinCprogramming.Whenusing||toevaluatelogicalconditions,anyconditionthatevaluatestoTRUEwillrendertheentireconditionstatementasTRUE.
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Whatwillbetheoutcomeofthefollowingconditionalstatementifthevalueofvariablesis10?s>=10&&s<25&&s!=12
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TheoutcomewillbeTRUE.Sincethevalueofsis10,s>=10evaluatestoTRUEbecausesisnotgreaterthan10butisstillequalto10.s<25isalsoTRUEsince10islessthen25.Justthesame,s!=12,whichmeanssisnotequalto12,evaluatestoTRUE.The&&istheANDoperator,andfollowstherulethatifallindividualconditionsareTRUE,theentirestatementisTRUE.
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WhatisFIFO?
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InCprogramming,thereisadatastructureknownasqueue.Inthisstructure,dataisstoredandaccessedusingFIFOformat,orFirst-In-First-Out.Aqueuerepresentsalinewhereinthefirstdatathatwasstoredwillbethefirstonethatisaccessibleaswell.
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InClanguage,thevariablesNAME,name,andNameareallthesame.TRUEorFALSE?
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FALSE.Clanguageisacasesensitivelanguage.Therefore,NAME,nameandNamearethreeuniquelydifferentvariables.
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Whenisa“switch”statementpreferableoveran“if”statement?
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Theswitchstatementisbestusedwhendealingwithselectionsbasedonasinglevariableorexpression.However, switchstatementscanonlyevaluateintegerandcharacterdatatypes.
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Whatisgets()function?
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Thegets()functionallowsafulllinedataentryfromtheuser.Whentheuserpressestheenterkeytoendtheinput, theentirelineofcharactersisstoredtoastringvariable.Notethattheenterkeyisnotincludedinthevariable,butinsteadanullterminator0isplacedafterthelastcharacter.
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DifferencebetweenSyntaxandlogicalerror?
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Syntaxerror:
Theseinvolvesvalidationofsyntaxoflanguage
Compilerprintsdiagnosticmessage.
Logicalerror:
Logicalerrorarecausedbyanincorrectalgorithmorbyastatementmistypedinsuchawaythatitdoesn‟tvioletsyntaxoflanguage.
Itisdifficulttofind.
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Whatisstaticmemoryallocation?
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Compilerallocatesmemoryspaceforadeclaredvariable.Byusingtheaddressofoperator,thereservedaddressisobtainedandthisaddressisassignedtoapointervariable.Thiswayofassigningpointervaluetoapointervariableatcompilationtimeisknownasstaticmemoryallocation.
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Whatisdynamicmemoryallocation?
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Adynamicmemoryallocationusesfunctionssuchasmalloc()orcalloc()togetmemorydynamically.Ifthesefunctionsareusedtogetmemorydynamicallyandthevaluesreturnedbythesefunctionareassignedtopointervariables,suchawayofallocatingmemoryatruntimeisknownasdynamicmemoryallocation.
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ArePointersInteger?
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No,Pointersarenotintegers.Apointerisanaddress.Itisapositivenumber.
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Inheaderfileswhetherfunctionsaredeclaredordefined?
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Functionsaredeclaredwithinheaderfile.Thatisfunctionprototypesexistinaheaderfile,notfunctionbodies.Theyaredefinedinlibrary(lib).
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Differencebetweenstrdupandstrcpy?
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Bothcopyastring.Strcpywantsabuffertocopyinto.Strdupallocatesabufferusingmalloc().Unlikestrcpy(), strdup()isnotspecifiedbyANSI.
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Whatisspaghettiprogramming?
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Spaghettiprogrammingreferstocodesthattendtogettangledandoverlappedthroughouttheprogram.Thisunstructuredapproachtocodingisusuallyattributedtolackofexperienceonthepartoftheprogrammer. Spaghettiprogramingmakesaprogramcomplexandanalyzingthecodesdifficult,andsomustbeavoidedasmuchaspossible.
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InCprogramming,howdoyouinsertquotecharacters(„and“)intotheoutputscreen?
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Thisisacommonproblemforbeginnersbecausequotesarenormallypartofaprintfstatement.Toinsertthequotecharacteraspartoftheoutput,usetheformatspecifiers‟(forsinglequote),and”(fordoublequote).
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Whatisanestedloop?
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Anestedloopisaloopthatrunswithinanotherloop.Putitinanothersense,youhaveaninnerloopthatisinsideanouterloop.Inthisscenario,theinnerloopisperformedanumberoftimesasspecifiedbytheouterloop.Foreachturnontheouterloop,theinnerloopisfirstperformed.
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Canthecurlybrackets{}beusedtoencloseasinglelineofcode?
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Whilecurlybracketsaremainlyusedtogroupseverallinesofcodes,itwillstillworkwithouterrorifyouuseditforasingleline.Someprogrammerspreferthismethodasawayoforganizingcodestomakeitlookclearer,especiallyinconditionalstatements.
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Whatarecompoundstatements?
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Compoundstatementsaremadeupoftwoormoreprogramstatementsthatareexecutedtogether.ThisusuallyoccurswhilehandlingconditionswhereinaseriesofstatementsareexecutedwhenaTRUEorFALSEisevaluated.Compoundstatementscanalsobeexecutedwithinaloop.Curlybrackets{}areplacedbeforeandaftercompoundstatements.
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Whatisaregistervariable?
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RegistervariablesarestoredintheCPUregisters.Itsdefaultvalueisagarbagevalue.Scopeofaregistervariableislocaltotheblockinwhichitisdefined.Lifetimeistillcontrolremainswithintheblockinwhichtheregistervariableisdefined.VariablestoredinaCPUregistercanalwaysbeaccessedfasterthantheonethatisstoredinmemory.Therefore,ifavariableisusedatmanyplacesinaprogram,itisbettertodeclareitsstorageclassasregister
Example:registerintx=5;
Variablesforloopcounterscanbedeclaredasregister.Notethatregisterkeywordmaybeignoredbysomecompilers.
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Whatissizeofvoidpointer?
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Sizeofanytypeofpointerincisindependentofdatatypewhichispointerispointingi.e.sizeofalltypeofpointer(near)incistwobyteeitheritischarpointer,doublepointer,functionpointerornullpointer.Voidpointerisnotexceptionofthisruleandsizeofvoidpointerisalsotwobyte.
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Whatareprintfandscanf,callbyreferenceorcallbyvalue?
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Printf:Callbyvalue
Scanf:Callbyreference
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Whatisaconstpointer?
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aconstpointermeansthepointerwhichrepresentstheaddressofonevalue.soifyoudeclareapointerinsidethefunction,itdoesn'thavescopeoutsidethefunction.ifitisalsoavailabletotheoutsidefunctionwheneverwedeclareapointerasconst.
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Whydoesn++executemuchfasterthann+1?
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n++takesmorethanoneinstruction,++nisfaster.n++hastostoren,incrementthevariableandreturnn,while++nincrementnandreturnwithoutstoringthepreviousvalueofn.
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WhatismodularProgramming?
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Ifaprogramislarge,itissubdividedintoanumberofsmallerprogramsthatarecalledmodulesorsubprograms.Ifacomplexproblemissolvedusingmoremodules,thisapproachisknownasmodularprogramming.
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Whydoesn'tCsupportfunctionoverloading?
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OverloadingispolymorphismwhichisoneofthecharacteristicsofObjectorientedprogramming.CisnotandobjectorientedlanguagelikeC++orJava.Therefore,nooverloading,inheritance,etc.
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Whatisanincompletetype?
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Incompletetypesreferstopointersinwhichthereisnonavailabilityoftheimplementationofthereferencedlocationoritpointstosomelocationwhosevalueisnotavailableformodification.
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ExplaintheDifferencebetweenCandC++?
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CisthepredecessorofC++.C++isanObjectOriented,non-procedurallanguage,unlikeC,whichisaprocedurallanguage.C++treatsalldataandfunctionalhandlingintermsofObjectsandtheirrelationships.
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WhatisNestinginC?
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Includingoneconstructedinsideanother,isnesting.Nestingcanbeastructureinsideanotherstructure,anif-elsestatementwithinanother,multiplewhileloops,oneinsidetheother.Continuingourearlierexample,ifyouhaveacollectionofbikes,insteadofgroupingthemseparately,youcannestthemwithinamainstructure,whichyoucanname“CollectionofBikes”.
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Howiscalloc()differentfrommalloc()?
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Themaindifferencebetweenthetwoisthatcalloc(),whenitisusedtoassignablockofmemory,theallocatedcontentsareinitializedto0.Malloc(),ontheotherhand,doesnotinitialisethememoryblockitassigns.Thememoryjusthasrandomvaluesleftoverfromprevioususage.
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WhatareDestructorsinCLanguage?
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Classifyingadestructoryoucancallitaclassobjectanditiscalledadestructoronceitgoesoutofscopeorgetsdeletedovertly.Thejobofadestructoristoputanendtoobjectsbeingproducedbyaconstructor.Justliketheconstructoryoucanconsiderdestructorafunctionalmemberanditisspecificallyknownbyaclassname.
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Whataretheusesofapointer?
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Pointerisusedinthefollowingcases
i)Itisusedtoaccessarrayelements
ii)Itisusedfordynamicmemoryallocation.
iii)ItisusedinCallbyreference
iv)Itisusedindatastructuresliketrees,graph,linkedlistetc.
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Whatisaunion?
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Unionisacollectionofheterogeneousdatatypebutitusesefficientmemoryutilizationtechniquebyallocatingenoughmemorytoholdthelargestmember.Hereasingleareaofmemorycontainsvaluesofdifferenttypesatdifferenttime.Aunioncanneverbeinitialized.
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Whataremacros?Whatareitsadvantagesanddisadvantages?
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Macrosareabbreviationsforlengthyandfrequentlyusedstatements.Whenamacroiscalledtheentirecodeissubstitutedbyasinglelinethoughthemacrodefinitionisofseverallines.
Theadvantageofmacroisthatitreducesthetimetakenforcontroltransferasincaseoffunction.
Thedisadvantageofitisheretheentirecodeissubstitutedsotheprogrambecomeslengthyifamacroiscalledseveraltimes.
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Whatareenumerations?
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Theyarealistofnamedinteger-valuedconstants.Example:enumcolor{black,orange=4,yellow,green,blue, violet};Thisdeclarationdefinesthesymbols“black”,“orange”,“yellow”,etc.tohavethevalues“1,”“4,”“5,”…etc. Thedifferencebetweenanenumerationandamacroisthattheenumactuallydeclaresatype,andthereforecanbetypechecked.
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Whatistheuseoftypedef?
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Thetypedefhelpineasiermodificationwhentheprogramsareportedtoanothermachine.Adescriptivenewnamegiventotheexistingdatatypemaybeeasiertounderstandthecode.
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WhatisthedifferencebetweenStringsandArrays?
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StringisasequenceofcharactersendingwithNULL.itcanbetreatedasaonedimensionalarrayofcharactersterminatedbyaNULLcharacter.
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Whatisanormalizedpointer,howdowenormalizeapointer?
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Itisa32bitpointer,whichhasasmuchofitsvalueinthesegmentregisteredaspossible.Sinceasegmentcanstartevery16bytessotheoffsetwillhaveavaluefrom0toF.fornormalizationconverttheaddressinto20bitaddressthenusethe16bitforsegmentaddressand4bitfortheoffsetaddress.Givenapointer500D:9407,weconvertittoa20bitabsoluteaddress549D7,Whichthennormalizedto549D:0007.
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WhatisgenericpointerinC?
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InCvoid*actsasagenericpointer.Whenotherpointertypesareassignedtogenericpointer,conversionsareappliedautomatically(implicitconversion).
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Differencebetweenlinkerandlinkage?
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Linkerconvertsanobjectcodeintoanexecutablecodebylinkingtogetherthenecessarybuiltinfunctions.Theformandplaceofdeclarationwherethevariableisdeclaredinaprogramdeterminethelinkageofvariable.
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Whatisafunction?
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Alargeprogramissubdividedintoanumberofsmallerprogramsorsubprograms.Eachsubprogramspecifiesoneormoreactionstobeperformedforthelargerprogram.Suchsubprogramsarecalledfunctions.
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Whatisanargument?
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Anargumentisanentityusedtopassdatafromthecallingtoacalledfunction.
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WriteaprogramwhichemploysRecursion?
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intfact(intn){returnn>1?n*fact(n–1):1;}
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Whatdothe„c‟and„v‟inargcandargvstandfor?
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Thecinargc(argumentcount)standsforthenumberofcommandlineargumenttheprogramisinvokedwithandvinargv(argumentvector)isapointertoanarrayofcharacterstringthatcontainthearguments.
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WhatareCidentifiers?
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Thesearenamesgiventovariousprogrammingelementsuchasvariables,function,arrays.Itisacombinationofletter,digitandunderscore.Itshouldbeginwithletter.Backspaceisnotallowed.
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Whatdothefunctionsatoi(),itoa()andgcvt()do?
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atoi()isamacrothatconvertsintegertocharacter.
itoa()Itconvertsanintegertostring
gcvt()Itconvertsafloatingpointnumbertostring
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Howisfopen()used?
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Thefunctionfopen()returnsafilepointer.Henceafilepointerisdeclaredanditisassignedas
FILE*fp;
fp=fopen(filename,mode);
filenameisastringrepresentingthenameofthefileandthemoderepresents:
“r”forreadoperation
“w”forwriteoperation
“a”forappendoperation
“r+”,”w+”,”a+”forupdateoperation
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Whatisthepurposeofftell?
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Thefunctionftell()isusedtogetthecurrentfilerepresentedbythefilepointer.
ftell(fp);
returnsalongintegervaluerepresentingthecurrentfilepositionofthefilepointedbythe
filepointerfp.Ifanerroroccurs,-1isreturned.
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Discussonpointerarithmetic?
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1.Assignmentofpointerstothesametypeofpointers.
2.Addingorsubtractingapointerandaninteger.
3.Subtractingorcomparingtwopointer.
4.Incrementingordecrementingthepointerspointingtotheelementsofanarray.Whenapointertoanintegerisincrementedbyone,theaddressisincrementedbytwo.Itisdoneautomaticallybythecompiler.
5.Assigningthevalue0tothepointervariableandcomparing0withthepointer.Thepointerhavingaddress0pointstonowhereatall.
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Whatistheinvalidpointerarithmetic?
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i)adding,multiplyinganddividingtwopointers.
ii)Shiftingormaskingpointer.
iii)Additionoffloatordoubletopointer.
iv)Assignmentofapointerofonetypetoapointerofanothertype?
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Canweinitializeunions?
77QUESTION
ANSIStandardCallowsaninitializerforthefirstmemberofaunion.Thereisnostandardwayofinitializinganyothermember(nor,underapre-ANSIcompiler,istheregenerallyanywayofinitializingaunionatall).
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WhatisOutputoffollowingcsnippet?
intmain(){
char*s="Abhas";
printf("%s",s+2);
getch();
}
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Has.Explanation:Intheaboveprogramroleof%sistodisplaythestringwhoseaddressispassedasanargument.Thisishowastandardprintfstatementworksinclanguage.Nowsincewehavepasseds+2asanargumentthereforefirstvalueofthisexpressionisevaluated.Here„s‟wouldrefertoaddressoffirstcharacterinstring„s‟.Nowprintfwouldgetaddressofthirdcharacter(addressoffirstcharacter+2)asargumentsoitwilldisplaythestringstartingfromthirdposition.Henceoutputwouldbe„has‟.
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Whatisdifferencebetween.comprogramand.exeprogram?
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Both.comand.exeprogramareexecutableprogrambut.comprogramexecutesfasterthan.exeprogram.Alldriversare.comprogram..comfilehashigherpreferencethan.exe.
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DescribeturbocCompiler?
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TurbocisanIDEprogramminglanguagecreatedbyBorland.TurboC3.0isbasedonMSDOSoperationsystem.Itisoneofthemostpopularccompilers.Ituses8086microprocessorwhichis16bitmicroprocessor.Ithas20addressbusesand16databus.Itswordlengthistwobyte.
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Outoffgets()andgets()whichfunctionissafetouseandwhy?
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Fgets()issaferthangets(),becausewecanspecifyamaximuminputlength.Neitheroneiscompletelysafe, becausethecompilercan‟tprovethatprogrammerwon‟toverflowthebufferhepasstofgets().
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Differentiatebetweena“forloop”anda“whileloop”?
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Forexecutingasetofstatementsfixednumberoftimesweuse“forloop”whilewhenthenumberofiterationstobeperformedisnotknowninadvanceweuse“whileloop”.
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Isthereabuilt-infunctioninCthatcanbeusedforsortingdata?
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Yes,usetheqsort()function.Itisalsopossibletocreateuserdefinedfunctionsforsorting,suchasthosebasedontheballoonsortandbubblesortalgorithm.
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Whataretheadvantagesanddisadvantagesofaheap?
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Storingdataontheheapisslowerthanitwouldtakewhenusingthestack.However,themainadvantageofusingtheheapisitsflexibility.That‟sbecausememoryinthisstructurecanbeallocatedandremoveinanyparticularorder.Slownessintheheapcanbecompensatedifanalgorithmwaswelldesignedandimplemented.
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HowdoyouconvertstringstonumbersinC?
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Youcanwriteyouownfunctionstodostringtonumberconversions,orinsteaduseC‟sbuiltinfunctions.Youcanuseatoftoconverttoafloatingpointvalue,atoitoconverttoanintegervalue,andatoltoconverttoalongintegervalue.
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Createasimplecodefragmentthatwillswapthevaluesoftwovariablesnum1andnum2.
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inttemp;
temp=num1;
num1=num2;
num2=temp;
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Whatistheuseofasemicolon(;)attheendofeveryprogramstatement?
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Ithastodowiththeparsingprocessandcompilationofthecode.Asemicolonactsasadelimiter,sothatthecompilerknowswhereeachstatementends,andcanproceedtodividethestatementintosmallerelementsforsyntaxchecking.
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Whatdoesthecharacters“r”and“w”meanwhenwritingprogramsthatwillmakeuseoffiles?
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“r”means“read”andwillopenafileasinputwhereindataistoberetrieved.“w”means“write”,andwillopenafileforoutput.Previousdatathatwasstoredonthatfilewillbeerased.
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WhichfunctioninCcanbeusedtoappendastringtoanotherstring?
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Thestrcatfunction.Ittakestwoparameters,thesourcestringandthestringvaluetobeappendedtothesourcestring.
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Whatisthedifferencebetweenfunctionsgetch()andgetche()?
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Bothfunctionswillacceptacharacterinputvaluefromtheuser.Whenusinggetch(),thekeythatwaspressedwillnotappearonthescreen,andisautomaticallycapturedandassignedtoavariable.Whenusinggetche(),thekeythatwaspressedbytheuserwillappearonthescreen,whileatthesametimebeingassignedtoavariable.
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Whatdoesthefunctiontoupper()do?
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Itisusedtoconvertanylettertoitsuppercasemode.Toupper()functionprototypeisdeclaredin<ctype.h>.Notethatthisfunctionwillonlyconvertasinglecharacter,andnotanentirestring.
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Whatarerun-timeerrors?
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Theseareerrorsthatoccurwhiletheprogramisbeingexecuted.Onecommoninstancewhereinrun-timeerrorscanhappeniswhenyouaretryingtodivideanumberbyzero.Whenrun-timeerrorsoccur,programexecutionwillpause,showingwhichprogramlinecausedtheerror.
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Isthisprogramstatementvalid?INT=10.50;
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AssumingthatINTisavariableoftypefloat,thisstatementisvalid.OnemaythinkthatINTisareservedwordandmustnotbeusedforotherpurposes.However,recallthatreservedwordsareexpressinlowercase,sotheCcompilerwillnotinterpretthisasareservedword.
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Whatiswrongwiththisprogramstatement?void=10;
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ThewordvoidisareservedwordinClanguage.Youcannotusereservedwordsasauser-definedvariable.
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WhatwouldhappentoXinthisexpression:X+=15;(assumingthevalueofXis5)
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X+=15isashortmethodofwritingX=X+15,soiftheinitialvalueofXis5,then5+15=20.
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Notallreservedwordsarewritteninlowercase.TRUEorFALSE?
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FALSE.Allreservedwordsmustbewritteninlowercase;otherwisetheCcompilerwouldinterpretthisasunidentifiedandinvalid.
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Whatisfloatingpointconstants?
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Floating-pointconstantsarenumberswithdecimalparts.Afloating-pointconstantsconsistsof:
Anintegralpart
Adecimalpoint
Afractionalpart
Anexponentpart
Anoptionalsuffix
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Whatisthedifferencebetweenfreadandfwritefunction?
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Thefread()functionreturnsthenumberofitemsread.Thisvaluemaybelessthancountiftheendofthefileisreachedoranerroroccurs.Thefwrite()functionreturnsthenumberofitemswritten.Thisvaluewillequalcountunlessanerroroccurs.
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Whatismeantbyinheritance?
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Inheritanceistheprocessbywhichobjectsofoneclassacquirepropertiesofobjectsofanotherclass.
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WhatisaternaryoperatorinC?
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PerhapsthemostunusualoperatorinClanguageisonecalledtheconditionalexpressionoperator.UnlikeallotheroperatorsinCwhichareeitherunaryorbinaryoperatorstheconditionalexpressionoperatorisaternaryoperator; thatis,ittakesthreeoperands.Thetwosymbolsthatareusedtodenotethisoperatorarethequestionmark(?) andthecolon(:).Thefirstoperandisplacedbeforethe?,thesecondbetweenthe?andtheandthethirdafterthe:.
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Whatisunaryoperator?
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Theoperatorsthatactuponasingleoperandtoproduceanewvalueareknownasunaryoperators.
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https://www.udemy.com/blog/c-programming-questions/
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