Chapter 9 – Creating and Using Structures

1. struct someName s = {0};
2. struct someName s1, s2;
3. s2 = s1;
4. Using struct someName s = { value1 , value2, … , value2 }; to initialize the components of a structure variable is the compact expression of this initialization, especially when there are many such structure variables to be initialized.
5. The disadvantage is that such initialization is position-dependent. If the structure changes, the initialization may no longer be valid.
6. Valid data types for the components of a structure are intrinsic C data types and enum types, as well as other structures. We will see later that a component may also be an array of any of these.