Difference between "C structure" and "C++ structure".

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Piyush/Santosh

  • Jul 20th, 2005
 

The defination of the structure in C is limited to within the module and cannot be initialized outside its scope. Where as in C++ you can initialize the objects anywhere within the boundaries of the project.

Girish

  • Jul 23rd, 2005
 

The on more deference is , in C++ structure can have methods(procedures) but C can note have methodes in structure

satish

  • Aug 25th, 2005
 

By default C structure are Public whil C++ structure are private 

prafull

  • Dec 31st, 2005
 

c can have methods in structures dude..

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Rohan

  • Feb 26th, 2006
 

C does not support Methods inside structure.

Reason :

╔═[■]═══════════════════════
║#include <stdio.h>
║#include <conio.h>
║
║struct temp
║{
║  int a;
║  get_data()
║  {

      printf("Enter value of a : ");
║    scanf("%d",&a);
║  }
║}T;
║
║void main()
║{
║   T.get_data();
║}

saved  file as ".c" file
Error : Function May not be part of structure of Union
and same code will run if you save file as ".cpp"

Yashwant S pinge

  • Mar 27th, 2006
 

Since , bydefault, C and C++ structure members are public.In C, you can declare structure as struct A a;But not A a(which is possible in C++);

rajesh

  • Jun 4th, 2006
 

I cant able understand your answer. Please tell what method difference in C and C++. Please explain briefly. Please Reply to my ID

By,

RajeshKumar.J

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Anupama

  • Jun 26th, 2006
 

Mr Rohan,

I actually tried saving the code you have given with extention .c and .cpp and it runs for both... So, I dont understand how you are saying that methods are possible only in the case of structures of cpp... could you clarify my query?

Thank you

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Siddharth Nimkar

  • Aug 25th, 2006
 

Turbo C will allow you to run the above code with .c extension.But try running the code in Dev C++ (this is another IDE) this will give you error. I guess Dev C++ uses "gcc"

avishek

  • Oct 4th, 2006
 

C++ structures are also by default public

Aneena Mathew

  • Jan 4th, 2007
 

In C all the variables in the structure are public by default,we cannot declare a variable private or protected.but in c++ though all the variables in the structure are public we can declare variables as private or protect. 

Sadasivan Arun

  • Jan 4th, 2007
 

C structures and C++ structures differ mainly in the fact that object manipulation within each other is possible in C++ and not in C.  It means that with the help of operator overloading in C++ its possible for addition and other such operations involving arithmatic operators which is not possible in C as it does not support polymorphism.

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Binu Sam

  • Apr 21st, 2007
 


  •  C Structures are by default Private.
  •  C++ Structures are  by default public

These are the main difference between C Structures and C++ Structures

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SrinivasaRao

  • Jul 10th, 2007
 

I also excuted the code which was given by one of our friend.
I got only one difference (public & private).

and in Many Books, they wrote that C dont have methods.
Can you give brief about this topic.

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aanchal agarwal

  • Jul 29th, 2007
 

both in c and c++ data members are public by default. to make the data members private in c++, we must use the keyword private .

C structures does not supports inheritance. Also, all members are public and the keywords public, private and protected are not allowed to be used. C structures can only contain data members but no member functions.

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NileshKatkar

  • Jul 16th, 2008
 

The basic difference in C and C++ structures is :
1) In C , default access for structure members is public
2) In C++ , defaulot access for structres is private

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navneetgoyal2000

  • Jan 4th, 2011
 

There are two different things / comparisons.

1) Structs in C v/s C++    AND 2) Struct v/s Class in C++

1) struct in C & struct in C++ have two main difference that
A) struct in C can not have direct functions / methods inside struct definition (but it still can have methods in form of Function Pointers).
While in struct in C++, can have functions / methods inside struct definition like classes.
B) in C, an object of struct is created as struct A a; while in C++, it can be directly created as A a;.

2) struct in C++ & class in C++, have a difference of just default access, i.e. members of struct in C++ have PUBLIC access, if not specified WHILE members of class in C++ will have PRIVATE access if not specified.

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vijaya

  • Jul 29th, 2011
 

In C, there is no access specifiers. No need to mention public.

C struct only contains data and C++ struct can have data as well as methods. All OOPs concepts can implies to C++ struct.

The only one difference between class and C++ struct is by default class is private and C++ structure is public.

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jayakrishna

  • Aug 11th, 2011
 

1.in c we can specify the structure in the main() function only and by default it as public.

2.in c++ we can specify the structure in the classes also and we can set it as private or protected.

3.in c we have the concept of inheritance to inherit the methods that were specified in the structure but in c it can't.

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sanuj

  • Aug 22nd, 2011
 

structures are also public in c..... thats why we can use it in main function

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