How can I find the largest (in size) of two integer types?

Question

For instance:

template 
void fun(const Type1 &v1, const Type2 &v2)
{
    largest::type val          


        

Answer 1

This won't be very feasible. How do you tell the difference between unsigned int and int? You can't use sizeof() because they're both the same "size" in the memory. I think you'll have to roll your own template specialization to handle those cases at which point I'd suggest just using an overloaded function.