Exam 13: Structures

In practice, most structure handling functions get direct access to a structure by receiving a structure reference or ____________________.

The ____ operator restores a block of storage to the computer at runtime.

Structure ____________________ can be any valid C++ data type.

By convention, the first letter of a user-selected data type name is lowercase.

A(n) ____ is a data type that reserves the same area in memory for two or more variables that can be different data types.

A structure is a(n) ____________________ data structure, which means that each of its components can be of different data types.

Assuming Employee is an already declared structure, the function definition calcNet(Employee *pt) declares the pt parameter as a(n) ____ to a structure of type Employee .

Structure members can be passed to a function in the same manner as any ____________________ variable.

Both arrays and structures are ____________________ data types.

The NULL pointer value, like its end-of-string counterpart, has a numerical value of ____.

Adding a structure to an array of structures requires shifting all ____________________ below the addition down to make room for the new entry.

Structures, arrays, and ____________________ can be members of unions.

In the expression ____, the address in pt is incremented before the hours member is accessed.

Declaring a structure requires listing the data ____, data names, and arrangement of data items.

As with all external and static variables, in the absence of explicit initializers, the numeric elements of static and external arrays or structures are initialized to ____.

The member operator, . , has a(n) ____________________ precedence compared to the indirection operator * .

The NULL pointer has no numerical value.

Unions can be members of structures or arrays.

The only argument delete requires is the ____ of a storage block that was allocated dynamically.

The ____ operator reserves the number of bytes required by the requested data type.