please help me with max element function in c stl

Question

Please help me understand why this is providing an issue; I want to determine the maximum number of elements without utilising any extra space.

Code:

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
    
int main() {
    cout<<*max_element({4,6,2,5});
}

Error:

    error : prog.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
    prog.cpp:5:30: error: no matching function for call to ‘max_element(<brace-enclosed initializer list>)’
      cout<<*max_element({4,6,2,5});
                                  ^
    In file included from /usr/include/c++/5/algorithm:62:0,
                     from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/c++/5/bits/stdc++.h:64,
                     from prog.cpp:1:
    /usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_algo.h:5505:5: note: candidate: template<class _FIter> constexpr _FIter std::max_element(_FIter, _FIter)
         max_element(_ForwardIterator __first, _ForwardIterator __last)
         ^
    /usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_algo.h:5505:5: note:   template argument deduction/substitution failed:
    prog.cpp:5:30: note:   candidate expects 2 arguments, 1 provided
      cout<<*max_element({4,6,2,5});
                                  ^
    In file included from /usr/include/c++/5/algorithm:62:0,
                     from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/c++/5/bits/stdc++.h:64,
                     from prog.cpp:1:
    /usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_algo.h:5529:5: note: candidate: template<class _FIter, class _Compare> constexpr _FIter std::max_element(_FIter, _FIter, _Compare)
         max_element(_ForwardIterator __first, _ForwardIterator __last,
         ^
    /usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_algo.h:5529:5: note:   template argument deduction/substitution failed:
    prog.cpp:5:30: note:   candidate expects 3 arguments, 1 provided
      cout<<*max_element({4,6,2,5});

Answer 1

You can substitute max for *max element. 

Please see the following:

cout<<max({4,6,2,5});

It will give your desired output.