Re: [Dev-C++] Formula question

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Oops, missed the meaning of your question.

Look at the file <limits.h> - it contains a lot of defines for numeric
ranges for different data types (char, short, int, long, ...)

/pwm

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Philip Bennefall wrote:

> Hi,
> Could anyone tell me the formula which is used to calculate the min and max values for a numerical data type of x bytes? Say for instance that I use the
> sizeof(datatype) function and get the answer 4, which is usually an integer, how do I then programatically calculate the min and max values for a signed
> and unsigned version of the data type respectively.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Philip Bennefall