1.3 Terminology

For the rest of this chapter, we adopt the following terminology, hopefully not too inconsistent with common C terminology:

Base type

Basic units of data storage (C's variously sized integers, characters, and floating point numbers) and aggregate records (structs and unions).

Derived type.

A type based on some other type (C's pointer, array, and function types).

Fundamental numeric type.

One of C's integer or floating point types. This does not include pointer types, structure types, or union types.

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