C Files and Preprocessors - placement questions answers

C Files and Preprocessors - placement questions answers

1. Identify the token pasting operator?
a) +
b) ++
c) #
d) ##

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2. What is the value of CAR in the following Statement?

enum vehicle
{BUS, SCOOTER = 2, CAR, TRAIN = 5, AEROPLANE = 6}

a) 0
b) 1
c) 3
d) 4

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3. Given the following declaration identify the correct definition.

typedef struct node
{
int id;
char name[20];
};

a) node n;
b) NODE n;
c) typedef NODE n;
d) typedef node n;

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4. Identify the correct statement

1. The typedef defines synonym for an existing data type.
2. The typedef create a new data type that is not existing in C.
3. The typedef helps in easier modification of a portable program.
4. The typedef gives meaningful name to a data type.

a) Option 1, 3 and 4.
b) Option 1 and 4
c) Option 2 and 3
d) Option 2, 3 and 4

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5. What is the output of the following code?

enum control
{
On, off, neutral
};
PRINTF(“%d”, off);

a) Compilation error
b) Execution error
c) 5
d) 1

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6. What is the output of the following program?

#define MAX (x, y) ((x) > (y) ? (x) : (y))
main()
{
int x=5, y = 5;
printf(“maximum is %d”, MAX( ++x, ++y));
}

a) Maximum is 7
b) Maximum is 5
c) Maximum is 6
d) None

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7. Which ANSI C function can be used to obtain a date string from structure *tm?

a) sttime(tm)
b) asctime(tm)
c) gmtime(tm)
d) strtime(tm)

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8. given the statement x = fopen(b, c);
what is b?

a) Pointer to character array which contains the file name.
b) File name within double quotes
c) Option a or b
d) None

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9. What is the output generated by the following code?

#define square (a) (a * a)
printf(“%d”, square (4 + 5));

a) 81
b) 4
c) 29
d) None

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10. Which is more correct?

‘int main( int argc, char**argv)’
‘int main (int argc, char* argv[])’?

a) Both are equally wrong
b) Both are equally correct
c) Neither is correct
d) Int main(int argc, char** argv)

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11. Identify the trigraph sequence for ^.

a) ?? /
b) ?? =
c) ?? ’
d) ?? !

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12. void listFile(FILE *f)

{
int c;
While( c = fgetc( f ) != EOF)
{
printf(“%d”, c);
}
printf(“\n”);
}

What will be printed when the function above is called with pointer to a open file that contains the three characters abc?

a) The character ab followed by infinite no of c’s.
b) 1 1 1
c) a b c
d) 0 0 0

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13. void getFileLength( char *s)
{
FILE *f;
if( f = fopen( s, “r”) )
{
fseek(f, SEEK_SET, 2);
printf(“%d\n”, ????);
fclose();
}
}

Which of the following could print the ???? in the code above to cause the function to print the length of the file when a valid file name is passed to it?

a) ftell( f )
b) fposition( f )
c) tell( f )
d) filelen( f )

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14. which of the following preprocessor directive will make the system- dependent constant INT_MAX available for ANSI C compiler?

a) #include <limits.h>
b) #include <int.h>
c) #include <ctype.h>
d) #define INT_MAX

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15. After a library function returns a failure, which of the following will print out the appropriate error message corresponding to error number given by errno?

a) printf( stderr, “%s\n”, geterror () );
b) printer();
c) perror( errno).
d) strerror( errno).

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16. Undefined functions calls in a c program are detected by

a) The preprocessor
b) The assembler
c) The linker
d) The operating system

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17. What would be the output if the following program (myprog.c) is run using the following command line?

myprog jan feb mar apr
main( int size, char *arg[])
{
while( size ) printf(“%s”, arg[ --size ]);
}

a) myprog jan feb mar apr
b) apr mar feb jan myprog
c) jan feb mar apr
d) error

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18. study the following statement

#define DELAYTIME 1000
volatile extern int k;
int j;
for( i = 0; i < DELAYTIME; i++)
j = k;
state which of the following is true.

a) Volatile is meaningless for the variable k
b) Volatile is meaningful for the variable k since k is external and can change
c) Volatile is meaningless for the variable since k is loop variant
d) None

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19. Main ( int x, char *y[])
{
Printf(“%d %s”, x, y[1]);
}

What is the output when the program is executed as prog arg 1?

a) 1 prog
b) 1 arg1
c) 2 prog
d) 2 arg1

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20. The purpose of the following code is to find

#include <time.h>
main()
{
time_t t1, t2;
clock_t clock( void);
int I, x = 0, y = 10;
t1 = clock( );
for( I = 0; I < 10000; i++)
{
x++; y+ = 50;
printf(“the value of I = %d, x = %d, y = %d\n”, I, x, y);
}
t2 = clock( );
printf(“Time in seconds : %g\n”, difftime(t2, t1)/ CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
}

a) Compilation time
b) Execution time
c) Difference between GST and IST
d) Difference between compilation and execution time.

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21. If the function definition of a program are in a file metric.c , where are the prototype declarations likely to be?

a) metric.cpp
b) metric.i
c) metric.exe
d) metric.h

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22. Which of the following statements are correct?

a) A macro must always be defined in capital letters
b) Once preprocessing is over and the program is sent for the compilation the macros are removed from the expended source code
c) Macros have a local scope
d) In a macro call, the control is passed to the macro

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23. Which of the following statement is correct about the code snippet given below?

# include <stdio.h>

Int main()
{
FILE *fp;
char str[80];
fp = fopen(“ABC.C”, “r”);
while( fgets( str, 80, fp) != eof)
puts( str);
return 0;

}

a) The code reports an error as L-value required
b) Code gives an output as garbage value
c) Code reports an error as undefined symbol eof
d) The code reads the content of the file if it is present and displays it on the screen.

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24. What will be the output of the following code?

#include <stdio.h>
#define CUBE( Y) ( Y * Y * Y)
int main()
{
static int a, b = 3;
a = CUBE(++b)/b++;
printf(“a = %d b = %d”, a, b);
return 0;
}

a) a = 25 b = 7
b) a = 24 b = 7
c) a = 27 b = 6
d) a = 26 b = 9

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25. What is the use of #pragma directive?

a) Used for making program portable
b) Used for expression evaluation
c) Used to turn off and on certain features
d) Both A & B

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26. How will you define the macro AND and OR if the following C code snippet is to test whether a given character is alphabet or not?

#include <stdio.h>
#define LE <=
#define GE >=

int main()
{
char ch = ‘D’;
if(( ch GE 65 AND ch LE 90) OR (ch GE 97 AND ch LE 122))
printf(“Alphabet”);
else
printf(“Not an alphabet”);
return 0;
}
a) #define AND &&
#define OR ||
b) #define AND &
#define OR |
c) #define AND <
#define OR >
d) #define AND >>
#define OR <<

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27. void testit( struct cust_rec *sptr, char *s)
{……..; }

Referring to the sample code above, if a calling function has a char array variable string length 10 and a cust_rec structure variable record, what would be the correct call to testit?

a) testit( &record, *string)
b) testit( &record, string)
c) testit( &record, &string)
d) testit( record, *string)

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28. Stream oriented files are accessed through

a) System calls
b) Library functions
c) Linker
d) Loader

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29. The function ftell( fptr) returns

a) The beginning position of the file represented by fptr
b) The end position of the file represented by fptr
c) The current position of the file represented by fptr
d) The middle position of the file represented by fptr

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30. Identify the stringizing operator.

a) +
b) ::
c) #
d) ##

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