girish

• Jul 5th, 2005

 

structure member are public in default and class members are privare in default. 

Sharath

• Mar 20th, 2006

 

1:By default,the members of structures are public while that for class is private

2: strutures doesn't provide something like data hiding which is provided by the classes

3: structures contains only data while class bind both data and member functions

sunil yadav

• Nov 17th, 2006

 

Structure dosen't support the polymorphism, inheritance and initilization.



In a Structure all the data types are public but in class they are private.



In a Structure we can't initilse the value to the variable but in class variable we assign the values.



Structuer is a collection of the different data type.

Gagan

• Feb 5th, 2007

 

There should be no confusions. The only difference between a structure and a class is that all members in a class are private by default whereas they are public in a structure.

Arun

• Jul 16th, 2007

 

Try inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, encapsulation, etc.
all these are possible.........

1. struct data is public by default.. but its private in a class
2. class is successor of struct in heirarchy..
3. struct is ovrloaded.. in C++ its not same with class..

sumitv

 Profile Answers by sumitv 

• Sep 4th, 2008

 

Structure does support inheritance.

try out the following code.

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

struct Base
{
    int A;
};

struct Derived:public Base
{
    int B;
    void display();
};

void Derived::display()
{
    cout<<endl<<"A = "<<A<<endl;
}

int main()
{
    Derived D;
    D.A = 111;
    D.display();
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

Try out private and protected inheritance as well. It works. :)

Regards,
Sumit

susantaown

 Profile Answers by susantaown 

• Sep 13th, 2008

 

  #include<iostream.h>
      #include<conio.h>
      #include<stdlib.h>
      struct a
      {
      protected:
      int x;
      public:
      a(int y)
      {
      x=y;
      }
      void showdata()
      {
      cout<<"x="<<x;
      }
      };
      void main()
      {
      a aa(2);
      aa.showdata();
      getch();
      }

structure support inheritance in cpp

anubhava_b

 Profile Answers by anubhava_b 

• Oct 10th, 2008

 

Similar to difference in default access specifier, default inheritance too is different in Class Vs Structures.

Vins99

 Profile Answers by Vins99 

• Jan 30th, 2009

 

A structure and a Class in C++ are same in every aspect expect in structure by default data members and member functions are public and private in case of class.

nivi.babuji

 Profile Answers by nivi.babuji 

• Jun 19th, 2009

 

Structure is the ancestor of the class and the difference lies in the fact that all the members inside the class are taken as private by default but in structure all the members are made as public by default.

shrikant99

 Profile Answers by shrikant99 

• Aug 28th, 2009

 

By default structure is private and class is public.

sreevatsava

 Profile Answers by sreevatsava 

• Sep 17th, 2009

 

You cannot use inline functions in a structure

sachin_mundhra

 Profile Answers by sachin_mundhra 

• Jan 28th, 2010

 

In case of class by default members and methods are in private section and In case of structure they are in public section.

nilesh2080

 Profile Answers by nilesh2080 

• Mar 11th, 2011

 

Struct cannot be inherited.. thats the thing to be remembered.

Nagarajutesting

 Profile Answers by Nagarajutesting 

• Mar 21st, 2011

 

Class stores both variables and methods.
Structure stores only members(variable) of different datatype.

By default the access specifiers of class are private but where as in structure it is public.

yogish

• Aug 5th, 2011

 

structure support multiple inheritence also try this code

Code
struct stud1


{


        int x;


        float y;


        stud1(int x,float y)


        {


                this->x = x;


                this->y = y;


        }


};


struct stud2:public stud1


{


        char c;


        stud2(int x,float y,char c):stud1(x,y)


        {


                this->c = c;


        }


};


struct stud3:public stud2


{


        char d;


        stud3(int x,float y,char c,char d):stud2(x,y,c)


        {


                this->d = d;


        }


};


int main()


{


        


        stud3 struTest(1,2.5,'y','x');


        cout<<struTest.x<<"


"<<struTest.y<<"


"<<struTest.c<<"


"<<struTest.d<<endl;


        getchar();


        return 0;


}


 

prasad

• Dec 27th, 2012

 

inline can be used in structures ...it is possible to work

MrH

• Jun 17th, 2014

 

A structures methods and data members are public by default.

robertgbjones

 Profile Answers by robertgbjones 

• Aug 5th, 2014

 

In current C++ the ONLY difference between class and struct is that struct members (data and method) and inheritance are public by default, and class members and inheritance are private by default.

srishty

• Jun 13th, 2015

 

Structure are value type so they get allocated on stack while class is reference type so they get allocated on heap

Ashish

• Mar 24th, 2016

 

You are absolutely wrong my friend. Only difference between class and struct is the members in a class are private by default whereas in struct its public. You can have private member data and member functions is a struct as well. Modern C++, starting from C++ 11 is an entirely different animal.

Ashish

• Mar 24th, 2016

 

Beware, whatever is supported by a class is also supported by struct whether its inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, data hiding etc. etc. as of C++ 11. Only difference is, for a class default access specifier is private whereas for struct its public.

Sajeed Ullah

• Dec 2nd, 2016

 

All data members of the class is by default private,
Whereas all data members of structure is by default public.