Why should I get this error
C2668: 'abs' : ambiguous call to overloaded function
For a simple code like this
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
int main()
{
unsigned long long int a = 10000000000000;
unsigned long long int b = 20000000000000;
std::cout << std::abs(a-b) << "\n"; // ERROR
return 0;
}
The error still presents after removing std::
. However if I use int
data type (with smaller values) there is no problem.
The traditional solution is to check that manually
std::cout << (a<b) ? (b-a) : (a-b) << "\n";
Is that the only solution?