Re: Back to School with Skybuck Flying: Lesson 1, Integer Basics.

Jerry Coffin wrote:
> There are a number of ways to form values like this. For example, you 
> can create the value '-32768' as:
> 
> -32767-1
> 0x8000
> \177777

The last two are not guaranteed to work in C. Assigning a number outside
the range of an object of signed integer type has an
implementation-defined result or raises an implementation-defined
signal. (n1256 6.3.1.3p3)

> or, you can use one of the two values already provided:
> 
> SHRT_MIN
> std::numeric_limits<short>::min

Yes - that's why they're there!