<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Chapter 4. Types</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0" /><meta name="keywords" content=" ISO C++ , library " /><link rel="home" href="../spine.html" title="The GNU C++ Library Documentation" /><link rel="up" href="support.html" title="Part II. Support" /><link rel="prev" href="bk01pt02pr01.html" title="" /><link rel="next" href="bk01pt02ch04s02.html" title="Numeric Properties" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 4. Types</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bk01pt02pr01.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part II. Support </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bk01pt02ch04s02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="manual.support.types"></a>Chapter 4. Types</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="fundamental_types.html#manual.support.types.fundamental">Fundamental Types</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="bk01pt02ch04s02.html">Numeric Properties</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="bk01pt02ch04s03.html">NULL</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="manual.support.types.fundamental"></a>Fundamental Types</h2></div></div></div><p> C++ has the following builtin types: </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> char </p></li><li><p> signed char </p></li><li><p> unsigned char </p></li><li><p> signed short </p></li><li><p> signed int </p></li><li><p> signed long </p></li><li><p> unsigned short </p></li><li><p> unsigned int </p></li><li><p> unsigned long </p></li><li><p> bool </p></li><li><p> wchar_t </p></li><li><p> float </p></li><li><p> double </p></li><li><p> long double </p></li></ul></div><p> These fundamental types are always available, without having to include a header file. These types are exactly the same in either C++ or in C. </p><p> Specializing parts of the library on these types is prohibited: instead, use a POD. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bk01pt02pr01.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="support.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bk01pt02ch04s02.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../spine.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Numeric Properties</td></tr></table></div></body></html>