Thursday, 13 August 2015

Competitive Questions and answer in C language for TCS DRDO Exame


1) main()
{
                char p[ ]="%d\n";
p[1] = 'c';
printf(p,65);
}
Answer:
A
Explanation:
Due to the assignment p[1] = ‘c’ the string becomes, “%c\n”. Since this string becomes the format string for printf and ASCII value of 65 is ‘A’, the same gets printed.

2) void ( * abc( int, void ( *def) () ) ) ();

Answer::
 abc is a  ptr to a  function which takes 2 parameters .(a). an integer variable.(b).        a ptrto a funtion which returns void. the return type of the function is  void.
Explanation:
                Apply the clock-wise rule to find the result.


3) main()
{
while (strcmp(“some”,”some\0”))
printf(“Strings are not equal\n”);
        }
Answer:
No output
Explanation:
Ending the string constant with \0 explicitly makes no difference. So “some” and “some\0” are equivalent. So, strcmp returns 0 (false) hence breaking out of the while loop.

4) main()
{
char str1[] = {‘s’,’o’,’m’,’e’};
char str2[] = {‘s’,’o’,’m’,’e’,’\0’};
while (strcmp(str1,str2))
printf(“Strings are not equal\n”);
}
Answer:
“Strings are not equal”
“Strings are not equal”
….
Explanation:
If a string constant is initialized explicitly with characters, ‘\0’ is not appended automatically to the string. Since str1 doesn’t have null termination, it treats whatever the values that are in the following positions as part of the string until it randomly reaches a ‘\0’. So str1 and str2 are not the same, hence the result.

5) main()
{
int i = 3;
for (;i++=0;) printf(“%d”,i);
}

Answer:
                Compiler Error: Lvalue required.
Explanation:
As we know that increment operators return rvalues and  hence it cannot appear on the left hand side of an assignment operation.

6) void main()
{
int *mptr, *cptr;
mptr = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));
printf(“%d”,*mptr);
int *cptr = (int*)calloc(sizeof(int),1);
printf(“%d”,*cptr);
}
Answer:
garbage-value 0
Explanation:
The memory space allocated by malloc is uninitialized, whereas calloc returns the allocated memory space initialized to zeros.
       
7) void main()
{
static int i;
while(i<=10)
(i>2)?i++:i--;
        printf(“%d”, i);
}
Answer:
                32767
Explanation:
Since i is static it is initialized to 0. Inside the while loop the conditional operator evaluates to false, executing i--. This continues till the integer value rotates to positive value (32767). The while condition becomes false and hence, comes out of the while loop, printing the i value.

8) main()
{
                int i=10,j=20;
        j = i, j?(i,j)?i:j:j;
                printf("%d %d",i,j);
}

Answer:
10 10
Explanation:
                The Ternary operator ( ? : ) is equivalent for if-then-else statement. So the question can be written as:
                if(i,j)
                     {
if(i,j)
                     j = i;
                else
                    j = j;                    
                }
           else
                j = j;        


9) 1. const char *a;
2. char* const a;
3. char const *a;
-Differentiate the above declarations.

Answer:
1. 'const' applies to char * rather than 'a' ( pointer to a constant char )
        *a='F'       : illegal
                        a="Hi"       : legal

2. 'const' applies to 'a'  rather than to the value of a (constant pointer to char )
        *a='F'       : legal
        a="Hi"       : illegal

3. Same as 1.

10) main()
{
                int i=5,j=10;
        i=i&=j&&10;
                printf("%d %d",i,j);
}

Answer:
1 10
Explanation:
The expression can be written as i=(i&=(j&&10)); The inner expression (j&&10) evaluates to 1 because j==10. i is 5. i = 5&1 is 1. Hence the result.

11) main()
{
                int i=4,j=7;
        j = j || i++ && printf("YOU CAN");
                printf("%d %d", i, j);
}

Answer:
4 1
Explanation:
The boolean expression needs to be evaluated only till the truth value of the expression is not known. j is not equal to zero itself means that the expression’s truth value is 1. Because it is followed by || and true || (anything) => true where (anything) will not be evaluated. So the remaining expression is not evaluated and so the value of i remains the same.
Similarly when && operator is involved in an expression, when any of the operands become false, the whole expression’s truth value becomes false and hence the remaining expression will not be evaluated.    
        false && (anything) => false where (anything) will not be evaluated.

12) main()
{
                register int a=2;
        printf("Address of a = %d",&a);
                printf("Value of a   = %d",a);
}
Answer:
Compier Error: '&' on register variable
Rule to Remember:
                 & (address of ) operator cannot be applied on register variables.
       
13) main()
{
                float i=1.5;
        switch(i)
                {
                case 1: printf("1");
                        case 2: printf("2");
                        default : printf("0");
        }
}
Answer:
Compiler Error: switch expression not integral
Explanation:
                Switch statements can be applied only to integral types.

14) main()
{     
                extern i;
        printf("%d\n",i);
                {
                        int i=20;
                printf("%d\n",i);
                }
}
Answer:
Linker Error : Unresolved external symbol i
Explanation:
The identifier i is available in the inner block and so using extern has no use in resolving it.

15) main()
{
                int a=2,*f1,*f2;
        f1=f2=&a;
                *f2+=*f2+=a+=2.5;
        printf("\n%d %d %d",a,*f1,*f2);
}
Answer:
16 16 16
Explanation:
f1 and f2 both refer to the same memory location a. So changes through f1 and f2 ultimately affects only the value of a.
       
16) main()
{
                char *p="GOOD";
        char a[ ]="GOOD";
printf("\n sizeof(p) = %d, sizeof(*p) = %d, strlen(p) = %d", sizeof(p), sizeof(*p), strlen(p));
        printf("\n sizeof(a) = %d, strlen(a) = %d", sizeof(a), strlen(a));
}
Answer:
                sizeof(p) = 2, sizeof(*p) = 1, strlen(p) = 4
        sizeof(a) = 5, strlen(a) = 4
Explanation:
                sizeof(p) => sizeof(char*) => 2
        sizeof(*p) => sizeof(char) => 1
                Similarly,
        sizeof(a) => size of the character array => 5
When sizeof operator is applied to an array it returns the sizeof the array and it is not the same as the sizeof the pointer variable. Here the sizeof(a) where a is the character array and the size of the array is 5 because the space necessary for the terminating NULL character should also be taken into account.

17) #define DIM( array, type) sizeof(array)/sizeof(type)
main()
{
int arr[10];
printf(“The dimension of the array is %d”, DIM(arr, int));   
}
Answer:
10  
Explanation:
The size  of integer array of 10 elements is 10 * sizeof(int). The macro expands to sizeof(arr)/sizeof(int) => 10 * sizeof(int) / sizeof(int) => 10.    

18) int DIM(int array[])
{
return sizeof(array)/sizeof(int );
}
main()
{
int arr[10];
printf(“The dimension of the array is %d”, DIM(arr));   
}
Answer:
1  
Explanation:
Arrays cannot be passed to functions as arguments and only the pointers can be passed. So the argument is equivalent to int * array (this is one of the very few places where [] and * usage are equivalent). The return statement becomes, sizeof(int *)/ sizeof(int) that happens to be equal in this case.

19) main()
{
        static int a[3][3]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9};
        int i,j;
        static *p[]={a,a+1,a+2};
                for(i=0;i<3;i++)
        {
                        for(j=0;j<3;j++)
                        printf("%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\n",*(*(p+i)+j),
                        *(*(j+p)+i),*(*(i+p)+j),*(*(p+j)+i));
                }
}
Answer:
                        1       1       1       1
                        2       4       2       4
                3       7       3       7
                        4       2       4       2
                        5       5       5       5
                6       8       6       8
                        7       3       7       3
                        8       6       8       6
                9       9       9       9
Explanation:
                *(*(p+i)+j) is equivalent to p[i][j].

20) main()
{
                void swap();
        int x=10,y=8;    
                swap(&x,&y);
        printf("x=%d y=%d",x,y);
}
void swap(int *a, int *b)
{
   *a ^= *b,  *b ^= *a, *a ^= *b;
}     
Answer:
x=10 y=8
Explanation:
Using ^ like this is a way to swap two variables without using a temporary variable and that too in a single statement.
Inside main(), void swap(); means that swap is a function that may take any number of arguments (not no arguments) and returns nothing. So this doesn’t issue a compiler error by the call swap(&x,&y); that has two arguments.
This convention is historically due to pre-ANSI style (referred to as Kernighan and Ritchie style) style of function declaration. In that style, the swap function will be defined as follows,
void swap()
int *a, int *b
{
   *a ^= *b,  *b ^= *a, *a ^= *b;
}
where the arguments follow the (). So naturally the declaration for swap will look like, void swap() which means the swap can take any number of arguments.

21) main()
{
                int i = 257;
        int *iPtr = &i;
                printf("%d %d", *((char*)iPtr), *((char*)iPtr+1) );
}
Answer:
                1 1
Explanation:

The integer value 257 is stored in the memory as, 00000001 00000001, so the individual bytes are taken by casting it to char * and get printed.

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