Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days

5. Continuing with exercise 4, show two ways of using pointer notation to assign the
   value5.5to the first floatmember of info.


6. Write the definition for a structure type named datathat can hold a single string of
   up to 20 characters.


7. Create a structure containing five strings:address1,address2,city,state, and
   zip. Create a typedefcalledRECORDthat can be used to create instances of this
   structure.


8. Using the typedeffrom exercise 7, allocate and initialize an element called myad-
   dress.
   9.BUG BUSTER:What is wrong with the following code?
   struct {
   char zodiac_sign[21];
   int month;
   } sign = “Leo”, 8;
   10.BUG BUSTER:What is wrong with the following code?
   / setting up a union /
   union data{
   char a_word[4];
   long a_number;
   }generic_variable = { “WOW”, 1000 };

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