Standard library header <climits>

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Technical Specifications

Standard Library header files

Language Support
<cstddef> <limits> <climits> <contract>	<cfloat> <cstdint> <new> <version>	<typeinfo> <exception> <initializer_list>	<csignal> <csetjmp> <cstdarg>
Concepts
<concepts>
Diagnostics
<stdexcept>	<cassert>	<cerrno>	<system_error>
General utilities
<utility> <memory> <memory_resource> <scoped_allocator> <compare>	<bitset> <tuple> <optional> <any> <variant>	<type_traits> <ratio> <chrono> <typeindex> <functional>	<ctime> <cstdlib>
Strings
<string> <string_view>	<cctype> <cwctype>	<cwchar> <cuchar>	<cstring> <charconv>
Localization
<locale>	<codecvt>	<clocale>
Containers
<span> <array> <vector>	<deque> <forward_list> <list>	<map> <set> <queue>	<unordered_map> <unordered_set> <stack>
Iterators
<iterator>
Algorithms
<algorithm>	<execution>
Numerics
<complex> <random>	<valarray> <numeric>	<cfenv> <cmath>	<bit>
Input/Output
<iosfwd> <ios> <iomanip> <streambuf>	<istream> <ostream> <iostream>	<sstream> <fstream> <syncstream>	<cstdio> <cinttypes> <strstream>
Regular expressions
<regex>
Filesystem support
<filesystem>
Thread support
<thread> <atomic>	<mutex> <shared_mutex>	<condition_variable> <future>
C compatibility
<ciso646> <cstdalign>	<cstdbool> <ccomplex>	<ctgmath>

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 a 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)

Synopsis

#define CHAR_BIT /* see definition */
#define SCHAR_MIN /* see definition */
#define SCHAR_MAX /* see definition */
#define UCHAR_MAX /* see definition */
#define CHAR_MIN /* see definition */
#define CHAR_MAX /* see definition */
#define MB_LEN_MAX /* see definition */
#define SHRT_MIN /* see definition */
#define SHRT_MAX /* see definition */
#define USHRT_MAX /* see definition */
#define INT_MIN /* see definition */
#define INT_MAX /* see definition */
#define UINT_MAX /* see definition */
#define LONG_MIN /* see definition */
#define LONG_MAX /* see definition */
#define ULONG_MAX /* see definition */
#define LLONG_MIN /* see definition */
#define LLONG_MAX /* see definition */
#define ULLONG_MAX /* see definition */