@Kamakshii: thats probably becuz a union has a common memory location, accessed by all its members. so, the value '100' is treated as an int by 'a', as a char array by 'b' and as a float by 'c'. I thnk i read this read tis somewhere sometime back. ... so aint completely sure abt it.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Kamakshii Aggarwal <[email protected]>wrote: > > u can always retrieve that value from the union that has been assigned > last.therefore u get correct answer only for x.c > > in the case of union y > y.a=100 and so the output > but am not sure why y.b is printing character equivalent of 100. > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Shubham Maheshwari < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> you mean to say .. the ques is wrong ... or what ...!! >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:54 AM, sagar pareek <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I think you must first read about unions and the differences between >>> union and structures :) >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Shubham Maheshwari < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> "union" Data Type >>>> What is the output of the following program? Why? >>>> #include >>>> main() { >>>> typedef union { >>>> int a; >>>> char b[10]; >>>> float c; >>>> } >>>> Union; >>>> Union x,y = {100}; >>>> x.a = 50; >>>> strcpy(x.b,"hello"); >>>> x.c = 21.50; >>>> printf("Union x : %d %s %f n",x.a,x.b,x.c); >>>> printf("Union y : %d %s %f n",y.a,y.b,y.c); >>>> } >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Shubham Maheshwari >>>> ShubZz >>>> O.o o.O >>>> >>>> enJoY ...!!! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> **Regards >>> SAGAR PAREEK >>> COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING >>> NIT ALLAHABAD >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Shubham Maheshwari >> ShubZz >> O.o o.O >> >> enJoY ...!!! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Kamakshi > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- Shubham Maheshwari ShubZz O.o o.O enJoY ...!!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
