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C++ In a Nutshell
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C++ In a Nutshell

by Ray Lischner
May 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
808 pages
32h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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<limits>

The <limits> header declares the numeric_limits class template and related types and specializations that define the limits and characteristics of the fundamental arithmetic types (such as the largest possible int). It is the C++ equivalent of the C headers <cfloat> and <climits> (and the wchar_t limits in <cwchar>).

The <limits> header has a number of advantages over the <cfloat> and <climits> declarations. In particular, by using a template, you can write your own template-based classes that depend on the characteristics of a template parameter; this is not possible with the macro-based C headers.

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