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Sunday, January 22, 2012

General Structure of a C Program


1. Documentation Section:-
  • Here we can write a set of comment lines
  • This includes Title of the Program, Author Name, Company Name, Date of Creation and Other details if any
  • Data and summary of the program.

2. Link Section:-
  • It is also called Header File Declaration or Include Section
  • It Links compiler to functions from System Library (Links Library functions of C)

3. Definition Section:-
  • Defines Symbolic Constants
E.g. #define PI 3.14

4. Global Declaration Section:-
  • Declaring Global Variables – Variables that are accessed by one or more functions are called “Global Variable”
  • Prototype declaration of C Functions
  • May contain Function Definition

5. Main Function Section:-
  • This is the Main Function of all C Programs - (main())
  • The program begins from here.
  • Main program starts from here

6. Sub Program Section:-
  • It has all User-Defined Functions that are called in main ( ) function or other sub functions defined by the user.
  • User-defined functions are generally placed immediately after main ( ) function.

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