What is Data Type In C

In the C Programming Language, Data Types refers to an extensive system for declaring variable of different types.
A data types tells the following things about the related variable:

• What is the size of the variable?
• How much its occupies space in storage?
• How the  variable bit mapped for its operation?
• All data types used in C programming, generally defined in standard library header files. In header files, all the characteristic such as size, space etc. of data-types has been defined.

If you want, you can create your own custom data types in C.

• There are mostly following Data Types in C as:
• char Data Type
• int Data Type
• long Data Type
• double Data Type
• float Data Type
• Long Double Data Type
• function Data Type
• pointer Data Type
• array Data Type
• enum Data Type
• struct Data Type
• typedef Data Type