C Aptitude Questions and answers with explanation

C Aptitude 24
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Predict the output or error(s) for the following:

C aptitude 24.1

main()

{

char str[4]="test";

printf("%s",str);


}

Answer: test#$634278621@!

Explanation: The character array has the memory just enough to hold the string “test” and doesn’t have enough space to store the terminating null character. So it prints the test correctly and continues to print garbage values till it accidentally comes across a NULL character.

C aptitude 24.2

 
main()

{

char * str = "hello";

char * ptr = str;

char least = 127;

while (*ptr++)

least = (*ptr <least ) ?*ptr :least;

printf("%d",least);

}

Answer: 0

Explanation: After ‘ptr’ reaches the end of the string the value pointed by ‘str’ is ‘