[Boost-users] [mpl][type_traits] Getting the minimum and maximum value for a buit-in type at compile time

I would have thought that there must be a way to get the minimum and maximum value for a C++ built-in type but my search through mpl and type_traits yields nothing and numeric_limits requires a run-time function call. Surely this information is available to the compiler so it must be available to the TMP programmer somewhere. Where is it ?