C++ variable types limits

Question

here is a quite simple question(I think), is there a STL library method that provides the limit of a variable type (e.g integer) ?

Answer 1

(related to C, but I think this also applies for C++)

You can also try "enquire", which is a script which can re-create limits.h for your compiler. A quote from the projetc's home page:

This is a program that determines many properties of the C compiler and machine that it is run on, such as minimum and maximum [un]signed char/int/long, many properties of float/ [long] double, and so on.

As an option it produces the ANSI C float.h and limits.h files.

As a further option, it even checks that the compiler reads the header files correctly.

It is a good test-case for compilers, since it exercises them with many limiting values, such as the minimum and maximum floating-point numbers.