[LCP]struct & union

[Chirag Kantharia]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:12:31AM +0530, shahnavaz wrote:
| 	Can someone tell me why the sizeof returns 4 in the main function.Even if i 
| use int in place of float it returns 4.

Because sizeof(int) is 4 (at least on linux on i386). And sizeof a union
is the max size of the members within.

| #include<stdio.h>
| struct s{
| 	float data;
| };
| struct c{
| 	float c;
| };	
| typedef union {
| 	struct s ss;
| 	struct c cc;
| }Union;
| 
| int main(void)
| {
| 	Union u;
| 	printf("Size of Union is  %d\n",sizeof(u));
| 	return 0;
| }

chyrag.
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