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Can you please tell me that what is the meaning of sizeof in c language

16th Apr 2019, 9:04 AM
Yug Bhupesh
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It gives you the size of a variable type in terms of bytes. It is useful when you want to allocate memory through malloc or calloc. It is also a good way of learning about how much memory you use when creating different user-defined variables.
16th Apr 2019, 9:12 AM
Rasmus Bons
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I think sizeof() returns a value of type size_t which is pretty much an integer value.
17th Apr 2019, 2:37 AM
Sonic
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Thanku you !!!!!
16th Apr 2019, 9:26 AM
Yug Bhupesh
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It's a data type seems to return something .....
17th Apr 2019, 5:10 AM
Hari Gopal
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It shows how much memory required for a particular data type
18th Apr 2019, 4:55 AM
Krishna Priya AS
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No
17th Apr 2019, 11:32 PM
Fried dawg gaming
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it just return us the size of that variable
26th Apr 2019, 6:35 AM
Orisis Gamer
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int b; cout<<sizeof(b); then answer is 2
26th Apr 2019, 6:36 AM
Orisis Gamer
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