Question

here is a quite simple question(I think), is there a STL library method that provides the limit of a variable type (e.g integer) ? I know these limits differ on different computers but there must be a way to get them through a method, right?

Also, would it be really hard to write a method to calculate the limit of a variable type?

I’m just curious! 🙂

Thanks ;).

Answer 1

Use std::numeric_limits:

// numeric_limits example
// from the page I linked
#include <iostream>
#include <limits>
using namespace std;

int main () {
  cout << boolalpha;
  cout << "Minimum value for int: " << numeric_limits<int>::min() << endl;
  cout << "Maximum value for int: " << numeric_limits<int>::max() << endl;
  cout << "int is signed: " << numeric_limits<int>::is_signed << endl;
  cout << "Non-sign bits in int: " << numeric_limits<int>::digits << endl;
  cout << "int has infinity: " << numeric_limits<int>::has_infinity << endl;
  return 0;
}