Global Constants
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The Microsoft run-time library contains definitions for global constants used by library routines. To use these constants, include the appropriate header files as indicated in the description for each constant. The global constants are listed in the following table.
32-Bit Windows Time/Date Formats BUFSIZ
CLOCKS_PER_SEC, CLK_TCK Commit-To-Disk Constants
_CRT_DISABLE_PERFCRIT_LOCKS Data Type Constants
Environmental Constants EOF, WEOF
errno Constants Exception-Handling Constants
EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE File Attribute Constants
File Constants File Permission Constants
File Read/Write Access Constants File Translation Constants
FILENAME_MAX FOPEN_MAX, _SYS_OPEN
_FREEENTRY, _USEDENTRY fseek, _lseek Constants
Heap Constants _HEAP_MAXREQ
HUGE_VAL, _HUGE Locale Categories
_locking Constants Math Constants
Math Error Constants _MAX_ENV
MB_CUR_MAX NULL
Path Field Limits RAND_MAX
setvbuf Constants Sharing Constants
signal Constants signal Action Constants
spawn Constants _stat Structure st_mode Field Constants
stdin, stdout, stderr TMP_MAX, L_tmpnam
Translation Mode Constants _TRUNCATE
TZNAME_MAX _WAIT_CHILD, _WAIT_GRANDCHILD
WCHAR_MAX WCHAR_MIN
See Also
C Run-Time Library Reference Global Variables Considerations for Writing Prolog/Epilog Code