std::deque::max_size

C++

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Concepts library (C++20)

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Numerics library

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Regular expressions library (C++11)

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Filesystem library (C++17)

Technical Specifications

Containers library

array (C++11)

vector

deque

forward_list (C++11)

list

set

multiset

map

multimap

unordered_set (C++11)

unordered_multiset (C++11)

unordered_map (C++11)

unordered_multimap (C++11)

stack

queue

priority_queue

span (C++20)

std::deque

Member functions

deque::deque

deque::~deque

deque::operator=

deque::assign

deque::get_allocator

Element access

deque::front

deque::back

Iterators

deque::begindeque::cbegin (C++11)

deque::enddeque::cend (C++11)

deque::rbegindeque::crbegin (C++11)

deque::renddeque::crend (C++11)

Capacity

deque::empty

deque::size

deque::max_size

deque::shrink_to_fit

Modifiers

deque::clear

deque::insert

deque::emplace

deque::erase

deque::push_front

deque::emplace_front

deque::pop_front

deque::push_back

deque::emplace_back

deque::pop_back

deque::resize

deque::swap

Deduction guides(C++17)

size_type max_size() const;		(until C++11)
size_type max_size() const noexcept;		(since C++11)

Returns the maximum number of elements the container is able to hold due to system or library implementation limitations, i.e. std::distance(begin(), end()) for the largest container.

Parameters

(none)

Return value

Maximum number of elements.

Complexity

Constant.

Notes

This value typically reflects the theoretical limit on the size of the container. At runtime, the size of the container may be limited to a value smaller than max_size() by the amount of RAM available.

Example

Run this code

#include <iostream>
#include <deque>

int main()
{
    std::deque<char> s;
    std::cout << "Maximum size of a 'deque' is " << s.max_size() << "\n";
}

Possible output:

Maximum size of a 'deque' is 18446744073709551615

See also

size	returns the number of elements (public member function)