Chapter 4, Exercise 5 from Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language"

ex5.cc

/*
   "The C++ Programming Language", Special Edition
   Chapter 4, "Types and Declarations"

   Exercise 5
   "What, on your system, are the largest and the smallest values of the
   following types: char, short, int, long, float, double, long double, and
   unsigned."

   12 May 2012
*/

#include <iostream>
#include <limits>

int main()
{
    printf("%11s%25s%25s\n", "TYPE", "MIN", "MAX");
    printf("%11s%25hhd%25hhd\n", "char",
           std::numeric_limits<char>::min(),
           std::numeric_limits<char>::max());
    printf("%11s%25hd%25hd\n", "short",
           std::numeric_limits<short>::min(),
           std::numeric_limits<short>::max());
    printf("%11s%25d%25d\n", "int",
           std::numeric_limits<int>::min(),
           std::numeric_limits<int>::max());
    printf("%11s%25ld%25ld\n", "long",
           std::numeric_limits<long>::min(),
           std::numeric_limits<long>::max());
    printf("%11s%25e%25e\n", "float",
           std::numeric_limits<float>::min(),
           std::numeric_limits<float>::max());
    printf("%11s%25e%25e\n", "double",
           std::numeric_limits<double>::min(),
           std::numeric_limits<double>::max());
    printf("%11s%25Le%25Le\n", "long double",
           std::numeric_limits<long double>::min(),
           std::numeric_limits<long double>::max());
    printf("%11s%25u%25u\n", "unsigned",
           std::numeric_limits<unsigned>::min(),
           std::numeric_limits<unsigned>::max());

    return 0;
}