Thread: How many bits does a data type created with struct use?

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    How many bits does a data type created with struct use?

    Thanks!

    Is it the same with enum too?

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    A struct may or may not take up the same amount of space as an enum.
    You can do sizeof(struct structname) to get the # of bytes used by a struct. The same likely works for enum (never tried).
    Regardless, a well written program will not depend of the size of a struct. (The size may not be the same on every platform.)
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    The size of a struct object, with no members in the struct is one byte. I think an enum object is 4 bytes.
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    thanks for your help guys

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