Does C language support inheritance?

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Does C language support inheritence. If so is is it using structures as classes are not defined in C.

You seem to be asking many questions that could be answered by reading a basic textbook on C or C++. Do you have something against the printed page? — , Jun 06 '10 at 19:10
No there are doubts that come to your mind sometimes when you read the textbooks. — ckv, Jun 06 '10 at 19:13
I think this downvoting is uncalled for. Discuss on http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33376/is-it-bad-to-ask-google-searchable-questions-on-stack-overflow — Midhat, Jun 06 '10 at 19:16

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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Yes, it does. See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-05/msg00725.html . See Axel-Tobias Schreiner's book Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI C. There's an English translation of it available.

Also, see Object-orientation in C and How can Inheritance be modelled using C? .

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answered Jun 06 '10 at 19:25

Yktula

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He's asking about inheritance, not OOP. – SLaks Jun 07 '10 at 01:28

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '10 at 19:08

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No it doesnt. C is not an Object Oriented language. Inheritance is a property of OO languages.

You should try C++. It's OO and supports much more than inheritance

answered Jun 06 '10 at 19:08

Midhat

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 06 '10 at 19:07

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No, it doesn't.

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SLaks

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 06 '10 at 22:04

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There is no Compiler-level support for inheritance in C. Nevertheless, as others have already pointed out, Object Oriented coding does not REQUIRE such support. However, its a lot easier to write OO code in C++.

answered Jun 06 '10 at 22:04

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 06 '10 at 19:35

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C inherits from ALGOL C Programming Language

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 26 '16 at 09:08

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C is not an Object Oriented language. Inheritance is a property of Object Oriented languages. There is no Compiler-level support for inheritance in C. Object Oriented coding does not REQUIRE such support.

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered May 21 '16 at 05:29

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No it doesn't support inheritance because C language is not oops

answered May 21 '16 at 05:29

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 14 '17 at 09:16

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No it doesn't. C is not an Object Oriented language. You can try C++ or Java for inheritance functionality.

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered May 02 '20 at 13:06

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C is not an object oriented language as inheritance is supported only in object oriented programming language C doesn't support inheritance

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jun 06 '11 at 06:48

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well, c is NOT OBJECT ORIENTED language so,it is not available in C

answered Jun 06 '11 at 06:48

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