Record

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Record is used to describe a data structure with named attributes.

C

In C, records can be defined as structs, with the definition of the form:

struct <name> { [attributes];* };

I think “tag” is the more precise term than “name”, but I’ll need to re-read about that. Without a corresponding typedef, all references to the defined struct should by qualified by the struct keyword.

In C the attributes within a struct instance will have a defined address offset based on the definition and by default allowing for alignment optimizations.