Question

I’m simulating inheritance in C, but not sure the exact way to go. I created 2 structs, Employee and Director, where Director is supposed to ‘inherit’ from Employee. How do I create an array that will be able to hold both regular Employees and Directors? This did not work:

Employee workers[3]

Below is my code for the Director struct:

typedef struct {
    Employee employee;   
    int bonus;
} Director;

Answer 1

Make an union that can contain either Directors or Employees, and a flag stating which part of the union you’re using. Then declare an array of that union type.