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From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: "minimum maxima" for fundamental types
Date: 1998/10/08
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Fritz Bosch wrote:
> 
> The ISO C standard defines "minimum maxima" for the values values of
> fundamental types, e.g.:
> 
>   int:          -32767       to  32767
>   unsigned int:  0           to  65535
>   long:         -2147483647  to  2147483647
> 
> The C++ standard (actually the Public Review Document) is not that
> specific:
[snip]
> It does, however, quote the C standard as a normative reference.
> 
> Does this mean that the minimum maxima defined for C also
> hold for C++?