Standard library header <climits>

 

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Technical Specifications

 

Standard Library header files

Language Support
<cstddef> <limits> <climits> <cfloat> <cstdint> <new> <typeinfo> <exception> <ciso646>	<initializer_list> <csignal> <csetjmp> <cstdalign> <cstdarg> <cstdbool> <cstdlib> <ctime>
Diagnostics
<stdexcept> <cassert>	<cerrno> <system_error>
General utilities
<utility> <tuple> <bitset> <memory> <cstdlib> <cstring> <functional>	<type_traits> <ratio> <chrono> <ctime> <scoped_allocator> <typeindex>
Strings
<string> <cctype> <cwctype> <cstring>	<cwchar> <cstdlib> <cuchar>
Localization
<locale> <codecvt> <clocale>

Containers
<array> <deque> <forward_list> <list> <vector>	<map> <set> <unordered_map> <unordered_set> <queue> <stack>
Iterators
<iterator>
Algorithms
<algorithm>	<cstdlib>
Numerics
<cfenv> <complex> <random> <valarray>	<numeric> <cmath> <ctgmath> <cstdlib>
Input/Output
<iosfwd> <iostream> <ios> <streambuf> <istream> <ostream>	<iomanip> <sstream> <fstream> <cstdio> <cinttypes>
Regular expressions
<regex>
Thread support
<thread> <mutex> <atomic>	<shared_mutex> <condition_variable> <future>

 

This header was originally in the C standard library as <limits.h>.

This header is part of the type support library, in particular it's part of the C numeric limits interface.

Macros

CHAR_BIT	number of bits in byte (macro constant)
MB_LEN_MAX	maximum number of bytes in a multibyte character (macro constant)
CHAR_MIN	minimum value of char (macro constant)
CHAR_MAX	maximum value of char (macro constant)
SCHAR_MINSHRT_MININT_MINLONG_MINLLONG_MIN (C++11)	minimum value of signed char, short, int, long and long long respectively (macro constant)
SCHAR_MAXSHRT_MAXINT_MAXLONG_MAXLLONG_MAX (C++11)	maximum value of signed char, short, int, long and long long respectively (macro constant)
UCHAR_MAXUSHRT_MAXUINT_MAXULONG_MAXULLONG_MAX (C++11)	maximum value of unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long and unsigned long long respectively (macro constant)