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Type specifiers

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  type-specifier  ::=  simple-type-specifier   class-specifier   enum-specifier   elaborated-type-specifier   cv-qualifier   simple-type-specifier  ::= [::] [  nested-name  ::]  type-name  [::]  nested-name  :: template  template-id  bool  char  double  float  int      long  short  signed  unsigned  void  wchar_t  type-name  ::=  class-name   enum-name   typedef-name   typedef-name  ::=  identifier   elaborated-type-specifier  ::=  class-key  [::] [  nested-name  ::]  identifier   class-key  [::] [  nested-name  ::] [template]  template-id  enum [::] [  nested-name  ::]  identifier  typename [::]  nested-name  ::  identifier  typename [::]  nested-name  :: [template]  template-id  

Type specifiers are used throughout C++: in declarations, type casts, new expressions, and so on. Although the syntax rules shown here are quite flexible, the semantic rules impose many limits. For example, the simple syntax rules permit short long as a type ( specifically , as a decl-specifier-seq ; see declaration ), but that combination of type specifiers is not permitted. See Chapter 2 for details about semantics for valid type specifiers.

See Also

class , const , declaration , declarator , enum , identifier , struct , template , typedef , typename , union , volatile , Chapter 2