How to workaround the inconsistent definition of numeric_limits::min()?

Question

The numeric_limits traits is supposed to be a general way of obtaining various type infomation, to be able to do things like

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Answer 1

This is an old thread, but there is an updated answer:

C++11 added a lowest() function to std::numeric_limits (See here)

So you can now call std::numeric_limits::lowest() to get the lowest representable negative value.