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each memory cell is one byte and each cell contains capacitors or flip-flops that store either 0 or 1...you can say that the cell is the most basic unit for allocation of objects...now that's the basic each char is one byte and I think you are talking about array of two chars, in that case you should know that an array is reference type which stores the reference to the memory block, basically each variable name is reference to memory block but in case of arrays it is the reference to the indexes hence index 0- one byte index 1- one byte it's not splitting it's just allocation of 1 byte to an index
12th Jul 2016, 8:57 PM
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if you consider the storing of info when you assign some value it overwrites the whole block(the size of data type) like when I assign the integer 2 to a char it will assign 00000010 to the memory block instead of 10 the same is the case of integers but as you see the integer is combination of two cells or bytes hence when I assign a character to it I.e., assigning 1 byte store to 2 byte memory block then only one byte will be overwritten that generates the so called garbage values or half written ambiguity
12th Jul 2016, 9:02 PM
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12th Jul 2016, 9:02 PM
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