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02-Structure of C and Compilation Process of C

The document outlines the typical structure of a C program, including documentation, link, definition, global declaration, main function, and subprogram sections. The main function section contains declaration and executable parts and must include at least one statement. Additional user-defined functions are defined in the subprogram section if needed.

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02-Structure of C and Compilation Process of C

The document outlines the typical structure of a C program, including documentation, link, definition, global declaration, main function, and subprogram sections. The main function section contains declaration and executable parts and must include at least one statement. Additional user-defined functions are defined in the subprogram section if needed.

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STRUCTURE OF C PROGRAM

1. Documentation section: The documentation section consists of a set of


comment lines giving the name of the program, the author and other
details, which the programmer would like to use later.
2. Link section: The link section provides instructions to the compiler to
link functions from the system library such as using the #include
directive.
3. Definition section: The definition section defines all symbolic constants
such using the #define directive.
4. Global declaration section: There are some variables that are used in
more than one function. Such variables are called global variables and are
declared in the global declaration section that is outside of all the
functions. This section also declares all the user-defined functions.
5. main () function section: Every C program must have one main function
section. This section contains two parts; declaration part and executable
part
1. Declaration part: The declaration part declares all
the variables used in the executable part.
2. Executable part: There is at least one statement in the executable
part. These two parts must appear between the opening and closing
braces. The program executionbegins at the opening brace and
ends at the closing brace. The closing brace of the main function is
the logical end of the program. All statements in the declaration
and executable part end with a semicolon.
6. Subprogram section: If the program is a multi-function program then
the subprogram section contains all the user-defined functions that are
called in the main () function. User-defined functions are generally placed
immediately after the main () function, although they may appear in any
order.
COMPILATION PROCESS OF C PROGRAM
FLOWCHART FOR COPILATION PROCESS

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