Question

describe various type conversion techniques in clanguage​

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Answer:

Type Conversion in C

A type cast is basically a conversion from one type to another. There are two types of type conversion:

Implicit Type Conversion

Also known as ‘automatic type conversion’.

Done by the compiler on its own, without any external trigger from the user.

Generally takes place when in an expression more than one data type is present. In such condition type conversion (type promotion) takes place to avoid lose of data.

All the data types of the variables are upgraded to the data type of the variable with largest data type.

bool -> char -> short int -> int ->

unsigned int -> long -> unsigned ->

long long -> float -> double -> long double

It is possible for implicit conversions to lose information, signs can be lost (when signed is implicitly converted to unsigned), and overflow can occur (when long long is implicitly converted to float).

Explicit Type Conversion–

This process is also called type casting and it is user defined. Here the user can type cast the result to make it of a particular data type.

The syntax in C:

(type) expression

Type indicated the data type to which the final result is converted.

// C program to demonstrate explicit type casting

#include<stdio.h>

int main()

{

double x = 1.2;

// Explicit conversion from double to int

int sum = (int)x + 1;

printf("sum = %d", sum);

return 0;

}

Output:

sum = 2

Advantages of Type Conversion

This is done to take advantage of certain features of type hierarchies or type representations.

It helps us to compute expressions containing variables of different data types.