Type specifiers

Type specifiers indicate the type of the object being declared. The following are the available kinds of type specifiers:

• Fundamental or built-in types:
  • Arithmetic types
    • Integral types
    • Boolean types
    • Floating-point types
    • Character types
  • The void type
• User-defined types

In the C++0x standard, the following type specifiers are introduced:

• The auto type specifer
• The decltype(expression) type specifier

Related information

• Function return type specifiers