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Which of the following cannot be a member of a structure in 'C' ?

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UGC NET 2016 Paper 3 Electronic Science Question Paper (10-Jul-2016)
The correct answer is

Function

To determine which of the given options cannot be a member of a structure in the C programming language, it's essential to understand what a structure in C is and what elements it can contain.

In C programming, a structure is a user-defined data type that allows grouping variables of different types under a single name. Structures are used to represent a record, e.g., a student record might contain variables for name, age, and marks.

  1. Enumerations: These are a distinct data type that consists of integral constants, which are used to assign names to integral constants to make the program easy to read and maintain. Enumerations can indeed be included in a structure.
  2. Another structure: C allows nesting of structures within other structures, either directly or by using pointers to structures. Hence, another structure can be a member of a structure.
  3. Array: Arrays can be included as members of a structure. This is used to store a fixed-size sequential collection of elements of the same type.
  4. Function: Functions themselves cannot be members of a structure. While you can have pointers to functions as members, the function definitions cannot directly reside within a structure. C does not allow functions to be directly included in a structure because functions in C are not treated as variables or members.

Therefore, the correct answer is that a Function cannot be a member of a structure in C.

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