Structures
Structures are a way of storing multiple pieces of data in one variable. For example, say we wanted to store the name and birthday of a person in strings, in one variable. We could use a structure to house that data:
struct birthday { char name; int day; int month; int year; };Structures may contain pointers to structs of its own type, which is common in linked datastructures.
A C implementation has freedom to design the memory layout of the struct, with few restrictions; one being that the memory address of the first member will be the same as the address of struct itself. Structs may be initialized or assigned to using compound literals.
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