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The C programming language offers various data types to suit different purposes. They can be broadly categorized as follows:

• Integral types (char, short, int, long, long long, enum, _Bool)
• Real floating types (float, double, long double)
• Complex floating types (float _Complex, double _Complex, long double _Complex)  (New feature
• void is an empty set of values
• Derived types (struct type, union type, array type, pointer type,  function type)
• Incomplete type (array of unknown size, a structure or union of unknown content)

Real and complex floating types are collectively know as floating types; integral and floating types are collectively called arithmetic types; arithmetic and pointer types are collectively called scalar type; arrays and structures are collectively called aggregate types.

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