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Return an upper bound on the largest number of elements that this list could possibly hold&period; Note that the return value of this function does not guarantee that this list can successfully grow that large, or even close to that large without running out of resources&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslstl&lowbar;list&period;h&gt;`

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max&lowbar;size() const noexcept;
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