Does C support inheritance? If so, is it by using structs since classes are not defined in C?
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Mehdi Charife
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No there are doubts that come to your mind sometimes when you read the textbooks. – ckv Jun 06 '10 at 19:13
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4Inheritance and other OO features _can_ be simulated in C. – Yktula Jun 06 '10 at 19:15
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1PSA: please stop adding answers that are just variants of "No, C is not object oriented." This has already been covered in 2010. – General Grievance Apr 24 '23 at 13:54
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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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Can you add an explanation for the first link? I'm interpreting this as "Yes, you can emulate it, but you really shouldn't." Is that what you were trying to say? – General Grievance Apr 24 '23 at 16:37
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No, it doesn't. 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.
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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++.
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