What are the differences between a struct and a class in
C++?

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What are the differences between a struct and a class in C++?..

Answer / rsn

Hello Shivani,

I think both struct and class in C++ are quite the same
except for the fact that, members in struct are public by
default whereas they are private for class.
Moreover struct also supports inheritance,polymorphism
etc...etc...

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What are the differences between a struct and a class in C++?..

Answer / amit patel

Rsn answer is perfect write.Shivani you are wrong.
the visiblity of members default public in structure,
whereas in class its private as all know.
So please don't make myths here.

for the detail answer for explanation read the following link.

http://carcino.gen.nz/tech/cpp/struct_vs_class.php

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What are the differences between a struct and a class in C++?..

Answer / ramesh kasi

The only difference is related to the default access
specifier.
The members of a structure have public access by default.
The members of a calss have private access by default.

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What are the differences between a struct and a class in C++?..

Answer / supriya

Memory is alloated on Stack using Structure whereas in class its heap , that is it wont be stored at an contagious memory location.

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What are the differences between a struct and a class in C++?..

Answer / ajit

In structures by default the member variables considered as
public where as in classes by default data members are
considered as private.
Structures doesn't provide the concept data encapsulation
but classes provides it.

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What are the differences between a struct and a class in C++?..

Answer / shivani

In Class Members are private by default.
In Structure Member are public by default.
structures are value typed where as classes are refernce
typed

Class can be inherited But Structure can't be inherited

In structures we cannot initilase the variable during the
declaration while in classes we can.

Structure s does not support polymorphism while class does

Structure can be declared without a tag at the first time,
but not in case of class.

e.g. struct { variables; }(struct variable list); [It would
not raise any error while comlitation]

class { access specifier: variable list; access specifier:
vari....

}; [it will cause an error while compilation]

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What are the differences between a struct and a class in C++?..

Answer / rajesh

shivani is wrong bec. structure is not inherited.

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