C language presentation

table of content
•Introduction
•Historical development of c
•C tokens
•Identifiers
•Keyword
•Data type
•Constants and variable
•Variable
•C instruction
•Type of operation.
•if else statement
•switch statement
•looping
•array
•storage classes
•type of function call in c
•function
•pointer
•structure

Declaring an Array
Like any other variable, arrays must be declared before they are used.
General form of array declaration is,
data-type variable-name[size];
for example :int arr[10];
Here int is the data type, arr is the name of the array and 10 is the size of array. It means
array arr can only contain 10 elements of int type. Index of an array starts from 0 to size-1
i.e first element of arr array will be stored at arr[0] address and last element will occupy
arr[9].

Two dimensional Arrays
C language supports multidimensional arrays. The simplest form of the
multidimensional array is the two-dimensional array.
Two-dimensional array is declared as follows,
type array-name[row-size][column-size] Example : int a[3][4];
The above array can also be declared and initialized together. Such as,

Storage classes
In C language, each variable has a storage class which decides
scope, visibility and lifetime of that variable. The following
storage classes are most oftenly used in C programming,
Automatic variables
A variable declared inside a function without any storage class specification,
is by default an automatic variable. They are created when a function is
called and are destroyed automatically when the function exits. Automatic
variables can also be called local variables because they are local to a
function. By default they are assigned garbage value by the compiled
External or Global variable
A variable that is declared outside any function is a Global variable. Global variables remain
available throughout the entire program. One important thing to remember about global
variable is that their values can be changed by any function in the program.
int number;
void main()
{
number=10;
}
fun1()
{
number=20;
}
fun2()
{number=30;
}Here the global variable number is available to all three functions.

Static variables
A static variable tells the compiler to persist the variable until the end of program.
Instead of creating and destroying a variable every time when it comes into and goes
out of scope, static is initialized only once and remains into existence till the end of
program. A static variable can either be internal or external depending upon the place of
declaraction. Scope of internal static variable remains inside the function in which it is
defined.
External static
variables remain restricted to scope of file in each they are declared.
They are assigned 0 (zero) as default value by the compiler.
void test(); //Function declaration (discussed in next topic)
main()
{
test();
test();
test();
}
void test()
{
static int a = 0; //Static variable
a = a+1;
printf("%dt",a);
}
output :1 2 3

Register variable
Register variable inform the compiler to store the variable in
register instead of memory. Register variable has faster access
than normal variable. Frequently used variables are kept in register.
Only few variables can be placed inside register..
Syntax :
register int number;
Types of Function calls in C
Functions are called by their names. If the function is without argument, it can be called directly
using its name. But for functions with arguments, we have two ways to call them,
1.Call by Value
2.Call by Reference
Call by Value
In this calling technique we pass the values of arguments which are stored or copied into the formal parameters
of functions. Hence, the original values are unchanged only the parameters inside function changes.
In this case the actual variable x is not changed, because we pass argument by value, hence a
copy of x is passed, which is changed, and that copied value is destroyed as the function
ends(goes out of scope). So the variable x inside main() still has a value 10.

Call by Reference
In this we pass the address of the variable as arguments. In this
case the formal parameter can be taken as a reference or a
pointer, in both the case they will change the values of the
original variable.
void calc
(int *p);
int main()
{
int x = 10;
calc(&x); // passing address of x as argument
printf("%d", x);
}
void calc(int *p)
{
*p = *p + 10;
}
Output : 20

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