The primary data types are basically standard data types that the C language defines. The language defines four of the basic data types in programming. These are:
char – these are single-byte in nature. The char data type can hold a single character in a local character set.
float – these are single-precision types of floating-point.
int – these are integers. They typically reflect the integer’s natural size on a host machine.
double – these are double-precision types of floating-point.
Apart from this, one can also apply various numbers of qualifiers to the basic data types. The long and short qualifiers applied to integers would turn out to be:
long int counter;
short int sh;
