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C Interview Questions and Answers

This document contains 13 C programming interview questions and their answers. The questions cover topics like operators, macros, pointers, strings, static variables, and conditional statements. The summaries provide the key outputs or results of the code snippets in 3 sentences or less.

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C interview questions and answers

By admin | December 23, 2003

1. What will print out?

main()
{
        char *p1=“name”;
        char *p2;
        p2=(char*)malloc(20);
        memset (p2, 0, 20);
        while(*p2++ = *p1++);
        printf(“%sn”,p2);

Answer:empty string.

2. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    int x=20,y=35;
    x=y++ + x++;
    y= ++y + ++x;
    printf(“%d%dn”,x,y);

Answer : 5794

3. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    int x=5;
    printf(“%d,%d,%dn”,x,x< <2,x>>2);

Answer: 5,20,1

4. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:


#define swap(a,b) a=a+b;b=a-b;a=a-b;

void main()
{
    int x=5, y=10;
    swap (x,y);
    printf(“%d %dn”,x,y);
    swap2(x,y);
    printf(“%d %dn”,x,y);
}

int swap2(int a, int b)


{
    int temp;
    temp=a;
    b=a;
    a=temp;
    return 0;

Answer: 10, 5
10, 5

5. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    char *ptr = ” Cisco Systems”;
    *ptr++; printf(“%sn”,ptr);
    ptr++;
    printf(“%sn”,ptr);

Answer:Cisco Systems
isco systems

6. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    char s1[]=“Cisco”;
    char s2[]= “systems”;
    printf(“%s”,s1);
}
Answer: Cisco

7. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    char *p1;
    char *p2;

    p1=(char *)malloc(25);


    p2=(char *)malloc(25);

    strcpy(p1,”Cisco”);
    strcpy(p2,“systems”);
    strcat(p1,p2);

    printf(“%s”,p1);

Answer: Ciscosystems

8. The following variable is available in file1.c, who can access it?:


9. static int average;

Answer: all the functions in the file1.c can access the variable.

10. WHat will be the result of the following code?

#define TRUE 0 // some code

while(TRUE)
{

    // some code

Answer: This will not go into the loop as TRUE is defined as 0.

11. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

int x;
int modifyvalue()
{
    return(x+=10);
}

int changevalue(int x)
{
    return(x+=1);
}

void main()
{
    int x=10;
    x++;
    changevalue(x);
    x++;
    modifyvalue();
    printf("First output:%dn",x);

    x++;
    changevalue(x);
    printf("Second output:%dn",x);
    modifyvalue();
    printf("Third output:%dn",x);

Answer: 12 , 13 , 13

12. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    int x=10, y=15;
    x = x++;
    y = ++y;
    printf(“%d %dn”,x,y);

Answer: 11, 16

13. What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    int a=0;
    if(a==0)
        printf(“Cisco Systemsn”);
        printf(“Cisco Systemsn”);

Answer: Two lines with “Cisco Systems” will be printed.

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