February 2021
Beginner
338 pages
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The C standard library provides facilities that help us determine numeric limits for various integer and floating-point types.
1 Integer Types Limits
The <limits.h> header provides useful macros for inspecting limits of various integer types and objects . Here we describe a few.
The CHAR_BIT macro constant represents the number of bits in a byte. Example:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <limits.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("The number of bits in a byte: %d\n", CHAR_BIT);
}
Output:
The number of bits in a byte: 8
The CHAR_MIN and CHAR_MAX macros represent the minimum and maximum values a type ...
