Data Types In C With Real Life Example

Data Types:

• Data types are an important attribute of an identifier in any language because all operations are type checked by compiler for the compatibility.
  
  
• Data type determines all the possible values that an identifier can have and valid operations that can be applied on it. Illegal operations will not compile by compiler.

C language has the following categories:

Primitive / Basic Data Types

• Character (Char)
• Integer (Int)
• Single Precision Floating Point (Float)
• Double Precision Floating Point (Double)
• No value Available (Void)

Derived Data Types

• Array Types
• Pointer Type
• Function Types

User Defined Data Types

• Structure
• Union
• Enumeration

Data types & their memory requirements:

Format Specifiers in C Language