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C++

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Language

Standard library

Standard library headers

Named requirements

Feature test macros (C++20)

Language support library

Concepts library (C++20)

Metaprogramming library (C++11)

Diagnostics library

General utilities library

Strings library

Containers library

Iterators library

Ranges library (C++20)

Algorithms library

Numerics library

Localizations library

Input/output library

Filesystem library (C++17)

Regular expressions library (C++11)

Concurrency support library (C++11)

Technical specifications

Symbols index

External libraries

 

• The Standard C++ Foundation - Non-profit hub for C++ news, articles, and events.

C++ FAQs

• isocpp.org C++ FAQ - Unified FAQ by the Standard C++ Foundation.
• Bjarne Stroustrup FAQ - Answers to the frequently asked questions from the creator of the language.
• Bjarne Stroustrup C++11 FAQ - Additional FAQ regarding the recent changes to the C++ language standards.
• StackOverflow.com C++ FAQ - Best answers to the frequently asked C++ questions on the programmers' Q&A website.
• C++17 in Tony Tables - New features in C++17 with examples.

C++ Language and library references

• JTC1/SC22/WG21 - The C++ Standards Committee, includes draft C++ language standards, proposals, and defect reports.
  • N1146 (PDF) - C++98 final working draft.
  • N1804 (PDF) - A working draft in early years (2005-04-27).
  • N3337 (PDF, HTML) - C++11 first post-publication draft.
  • N4140 (PDF, HTML) - C++14 final working draft.
  • N4659 (PDF, HTML) - C++17 final working draft.
  • N4861 (PDF, HTML) - C++20 final working draft.
  • N4868 (PDF, HTML) - C++20 first post-publication draft (contains editorial fixes to C++20 only).
  • N4950 (PDF) - C++23 final working draft.
• eel.is/c++draft - HTML version of current draft.
• ansi.org - Official C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2017 for purchase.
• Apache - Reference manual for the Apache implementation of the C++ standard library.
• IBM AIX 13.1.3 IBM zOS 2.3.0 - Reference manual for the IBM implementation of C and C++ core languages.
• IBM AIX 13.1.3 - Reference manual for the IBM implementations of the C++ standard library.
• MSDN - Reference manual for the Microsoft implementation of the C++ core language.
• MSDN - Reference manual for the Microsoft implementation of the C++ library.
  • Dinkumware - C++ Standard Library implementation that ships with Microsoft Visual C++.
  • Open STL - MSVC's implementation of modern C++ Standard Library.
• GNU libstdc++ - Reference manual for the GNU implementation of the C++ library.
  • libstdc++-v3 - GNU implementation of the C++ library.
• libc++ documentation - clang/llvm project's documentation for the implementation of the C++ Standard Library.
  • libc++ - clang/llvm implementation of the C++ Standard Library.
• HP - Reference manual for the Dinkumware implementation of the C++ library (as licensed to HP).
• EWL - Reference manual for the Embedded Warrior implementation of the C++ library.
• cplusplus.com - Unofficial C++ standard library reference.
• SGI STL (hosted on rrsd.com) - Reference for STL, the 1994 library that introduced many concepts later adopted by the C++ standard library.

C++ ABIs

• Itanium C++ ABI - De-facto C++ ABI standard, adopted by

• System V ABI.
• ARM C++ ABI.

Patterns, idioms, tips and tricks

• C++ Core Guidelines - By Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter.
• C++ Patterns - Modern C++ examples created by the community.
• More C++ Idioms - At wikibooks.org.
• CeePlusPlusIdioms - At c2.com.
• Welcome Back to C++ - Learn modern C++ (MSDN).

Related standards

• JTC1/SC22/WG14 - The C Standards Committee, includes draft C language standards, proposals, and defect reports.
• POSIX.1-2017/IEEE Std 1003.1-2017 - The operating system API of the Unix-compatible systems.
• The Unicode Standard - The universal encoding standard for written characters.

See also

• List of C++ libraries