Types

The mikroC PRO for PIC is a strictly typed language, which means that every object, function, and expression must have a strictly defined type, known in the time of compilation. Note that the mikroC PRO for PIC works exclusively with numeric types.

The type serves:

The mikroC PRO for PIC supports many standard (predefined) and user-defined data types, including signed and unsigned integers in various sizes, floating-point numbers with various precisions, arrays, structures, and unions. In addition, pointers to most of these objects can be established and manipulated in memory.

The type determines how much memory is allocated to an object and how the program will interpret the bit patterns found in the object’s storage allocation. A given data type can be viewed as a set of values (often implementation-dependent) that identifiers of that type can assume, together with a set of operations allowed with these values. The compile-time operator sizeof allows you to determine the size in bytes of any standard or user-defined type.

The mikroC PRO for PIC standard libraries and your own program and header files must provide unambiguous identifiers (or expressions derived from them) and types so that the mikroC PRO for PIC can consistently access, interpret, and (possibly) change the bit patterns in memory corresponding to each active object in your program.

Type Categories

A common way to categorize types is to divide them into:

The fudamental types represent types that cannot be split up into smaller parts. They are sometimes referred to as unstructured types. The fundamental types are void, char, int, float, and double, together with short, long, signed, and unsigned variants of some of them. For more information on fundamental types, refer to the topic Fundamental Types.

The derived types are also known as structured types and they include pointers to other types, arrays of other types, function types, structures, and unions. For more information on derived types, refer to the topic Derived Types.

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