From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luiz Fernando Capitulino Subject: Re: variable type Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:57:19 -0300 Message-ID: <42D25E9F.6030101@conectiva.com.br> References: <42D21123.2090306@effigent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42D21123.2090306@effigent.net> Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: raja Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org raja wrote: > hi, > If i have given a variable name that is declared previously. > Is there any way to knoe the type of the variable. No there isn't. But you can know how bytes long the variable is with the 'sizeof' operator.