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26 <h1>C++ Support in Clang</h1>
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28 <p>Last updated: $Date$</p>
30 <p>Clang fully implements all published ISO C++ standards including <a
31 href="#cxx11">C++11</a>, as well as the upcoming <a
32 href="#cxx14">C++14</a> standard, and some parts of the fledgling <a
33 href="#cxx17">C++1z</a> standard,
34 and is considered a production-quality C++ compiler.
36 <p>The Clang community is continually striving to improve C++ standards
37 compliance between releases by submitting and tracking <a
38 href="cxx_dr_status.html">C++ Defect Reports</a> and implementing resolutions
39 as they become available.</p>
41 <p>Experimental work is also under way to implement <a href="#ts">C++ Technical
42 Specifications</a> that will help drive the future of the C++ programming
45 <p>The <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug tracker</a> contains Clang
46 C++ components that track known bugs with Clang's language conformance in
47 each language mode.</p>
49 <h2 id="cxx98">C++98 implementation status</h2>
51 <p>Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998 standard
52 (including the defects addressed in the ISO C++ 2003 standard)
53 except for <tt>export</tt> (which was removed in C++11).
55 <h2 id="cxx11">C++11 implementation status</h2>
57 <p>Clang 3.3 and later implement all of the <a
58 href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50372">ISO
59 C++ 2011 standard</a>. The following table describes the Clang version
60 in which each feature became available.</p>
62 <p>By default, Clang builds C++ code according to the C++98 standard, with many
63 C++11 features accepted as extensions. You can use Clang in C++11 mode with the
64 <code>-std=c++11</code> option. Clang's C++11 mode can be used
65 with <a href="http://libcxx.llvm.org/">libc++</a> or with gcc's libstdc++, but
66 patches are needed to make <a href="libstdc++4.4-clang0x.patch">libstdc++-4.4</a>
67 work with Clang in C++11 mode. Patches are also needed to make
68 <a href="libstdc++4.6-clang11.patch">libstdc++-4.6</a>
69 and <a href="libstdc++4.7-clang11.patch">libstdc++-4.7</a> work with Clang
70 releases prior to version 3.2 in C++11 mode.
72 <table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
74 <th>Language Feature</th>
75 <th>C++11 Proposal</th>
76 <th>Available in Clang?</th>
79 <td>Rvalue references</td>
80 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2118.html">N2118</a></td>
81 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
84 <td> Rvalue references for <code>*this</code></td>
85 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2439.htm">N2439</a></td>
86 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
89 <td>Initialization of class objects by rvalues</td>
90 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1610.html">N1610</a></td>
91 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
94 <td>Non-static data member initializers</td>
95 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2008/n2756.htm">N2756</a></td>
96 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
99 <td>Variadic templates</td>
100 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2242.pdf">N2242</a></td>
101 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
104 <td> Extending variadic template template parameters</td>
105 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2555.pdf">N2555</a></td>
106 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
109 <td>Initializer lists</td>
110 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2672.htm">N2672</a></td>
111 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
114 <td>Static assertions</td>
115 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1720.html">N1720</a></td>
116 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
119 <td><code>auto</code>-typed variables</td>
120 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1984.pdf">N1984</a></td>
121 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
124 <td> Multi-declarator <code>auto</code></td>
125 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1737.pdf">N1737</a></td>
126 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
129 <td> Removal of auto as a storage-class specifier</td>
130 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2546.htm">N2546</a></td>
131 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
134 <td> New function declarator syntax</td>
135 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2541.htm">N2541</a></td>
136 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
139 <td>Lambda expressions</td>
140 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2927.pdf">N2927</a></td>
141 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
144 <td>Declared type of an expression</td>
145 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2343.pdf">N2343</a></td>
146 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
149 <td> Incomplete return types</td>
150 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n3276.pdf">N3276</a></td>
151 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
154 <td>Right angle brackets</td>
155 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1757.html">N1757</a></td>
156 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
159 <td>Default template arguments for function templates</td>
160 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#226">DR226</a></td>
161 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
164 <td>Solving the SFINAE problem for expressions</td>
165 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2634.html">DR339</a></td>
166 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
169 <td>Alias templates</td>
170 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2258.pdf">N2258</a></td>
171 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
174 <td>Extern templates</td>
175 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1987.htm">N1987</a></td>
176 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
179 <td>Null pointer constant</td>
180 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2431.pdf">N2431</a></td>
181 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
184 <td>Strongly-typed enums</td>
185 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2347.pdf">N2347</a></td>
186 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
189 <td>Forward declarations for enums</td>
190 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2764.pdf">N2764</a>
191 <br><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#1206">DR1206</a></td>
192 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
195 <td>Standardized attribute syntax</td>
196 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2761.pdf">N2761</a></td>
197 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3 <a href="#n2761">(1)</a></td>
200 <td>Generalized constant expressions</td>
201 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2235.pdf">N2235</a></td>
202 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
205 <td>Alignment support</td>
206 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2341.pdf">N2341</a></td>
207 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
210 <td>Conditionally-support behavior</td>
211 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1627.pdf">N1627</a></td>
212 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
215 <td>Changing undefined behavior into diagnosable errors</td>
216 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1727.pdf">N1727</a></td>
217 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
220 <td>Delegating constructors</td>
221 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1986.pdf">N1986</a></td>
222 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
225 <td>Inheriting constructors</td>
226 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2540.htm">N2540</a></td>
227 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
230 <td>Explicit conversion operators</td>
231 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2437.pdf">N2437</a></td>
232 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
235 <td>New character types</td>
236 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2249.html">N2249</a></td>
237 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
240 <td>Unicode string literals</td>
241 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2442.htm">N2442</a></td>
242 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
245 <td>Raw string literals</td>
246 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2442.htm">N2442</a></td>
247 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
250 <td>Universal character names in literals</td>
251 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2170.html">N2170</a></td>
252 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
255 <td>User-defined literals</td>
256 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2765.pdf">N2765</a></td>
257 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
260 <td>Standard Layout Types</td>
261 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2342.htm">N2342</a></td>
262 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
265 <td>Defaulted functions</td>
266 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2346.htm">N2346</a></td>
267 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
270 <td>Deleted functions</td>
271 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2346.htm">N2346</a></td>
272 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
275 <td>Extended friend declarations</td>
276 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1791.pdf">N1791</a></td>
277 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
280 <td>Extending <code>sizeof</code></td>
281 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2253.html">N2253</a>
282 <br><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#850">DR850</a></td>
283 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
286 <td>Inline namespaces</td>
287 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2535.htm">N2535</a></td>
288 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
291 <td>Unrestricted unions</td>
292 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2544.pdf">N2544</a></td>
293 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
296 <td>Local and unnamed types as template arguments</td>
297 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2657.htm">N2657</a></td>
298 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
301 <td>Range-based for</td>
302 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2930.html">N2930</a></td>
303 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
306 <td>Explicit virtual overrides</td>
307 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2928.htm">N2928</a>
308 <br><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3206.htm">N3206</a>
309 <br><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n3272.htm">N3272</a></td>
310 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
313 <td>Minimal support for garbage collection and reachability-based leak detection</td>
314 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2670.htm">N2670</a></td>
315 <td class="na" align="center">N/A <a href="#n2670">(2)</a></td>
318 <td>Allowing move constructors to throw [noexcept]</td>
319 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3050.html">N3050</a></td>
320 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
323 <td>Defining move special member functions</td>
324 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3053.html">N3053</a></td>
325 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
328 <tr class="separator">
329 <th align="center" colspan="3">Concurrency</th>
332 <td>Sequence points</td>
333 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2239.html">N2239</a></td>
334 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
337 <td>Atomic operations</td>
338 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2427.html">N2427</a></td>
339 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
342 <td>Strong Compare and Exchange</td>
343 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2748.html">N2748</a></td>
344 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1 <a href="#n2748">(3)</a></td>
347 <td>Bidirectional Fences</td>
348 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2752.htm">N2752</a></td>
349 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
353 <td>Memory model</td>
354 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2429.htm">N2429</a></td>
355 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.2</td>
358 <td>Data-dependency ordering: atomics and memory model</td>
359 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2664.htm">N2664</a></td>
360 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.2 <a href="#n2664">(4)</a></td>
363 <td>Propagating exceptions</td>
364 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2179.html">N2179</a></td>
365 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
368 <td>Allow atomics use in signal handlers</td>
369 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2547.htm">N2547</a></td>
370 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
373 <td>Thread-local storage</td>
374 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2659.htm">N2659</a></td>
375 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3 <a href="#n2659">(5)</a></td>
378 <td>Dynamic initialization and destruction with concurrency</td>
379 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2660.htm">N2660</a></td>
380 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
383 <tr class="separator">
384 <th align="center" colspan="3">C99 Features in C++11</th>
387 <td><code>__func__</code> predefined identifier</td>
388 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2340.htm">N2340</a></td>
389 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
392 <td>C99 preprocessor</td>
393 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1653.htm">N1653</a></td>
394 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
397 <td><code>long long</code></td>
398 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1811.pdf">N1811</a></td>
399 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
402 <td>Extended integral types</td>
403 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1988.pdf">N1988</a></td>
404 <td class="na" align="center">N/A <a href="#n1988">(6)</a></td>
409 <span id="n2761">(1): The <code>[[carries_dependency]]</code> attribute
410 has no effect.</span><br>
411 <span id="n2670">(2): No compiler changes are required for an implementation
412 such as Clang that does not provide garbage collection.</span><br>
413 <span id="n2748">(3): All compare-exchange operations are emitted as
414 strong compare-exchanges.</span><br>
415 <span id="n2664">(4): <code>memory_order_consume</code> is lowered to
416 <code>memory_order_acquire</code>.</span><br>
417 <span id="n2659">(5): <code>thread_local</code> support
418 requires a C++ runtime library providing <code>__cxa_thread_atexit</code>, such
419 as <a href="http://libcxxabi.llvm.org">libc++abi</a> 3.6 or later,
420 or libsupc++ 4.8 or later.</span><br>
421 <span id="n1988">(6): No compiler changes are required for an implementation
422 such as Clang that does not provide any extended integer types.
423 <code>__int128</code> is not treated as an extended integer type,
424 because changing <code>intmax_t</code> would be an ABI-incompatible
428 <h2 id="cxx14">C++14 implementation status</h2>
430 <p>Clang 3.4 and later implement all of the Draft International Standard (see <a
431 href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3797.pdf">most
432 recent publicly available draft</a>)
433 of the upcoming C++14 language standard. The following table describes the
434 Clang version in which each feature became available.</p>
436 <p>You can use Clang in C++14 mode with the <code>-std=c++14</code> option
437 (use <code>-std=c++1y</code> in Clang 3.4 and earlier).</p>
439 <table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
441 <th>Language Feature</th>
442 <th>C++14 Proposal</th>
443 <th>Available in Clang?</th>
446 <td>Tweak to certain C++ contextual conversions</td>
447 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3323.pdf">N3323</a></td>
448 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
451 <td>Binary literals</td>
452 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3472.pdf">N3472</a></td>
453 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
456 <td>decltype(auto)</td>
457 <td rowspan=2 style="vertical-align:middle"><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3638.html">N3638</a></td>
458 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
461 <td>Return type deduction for normal functions</td>
462 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
465 <td>Initialized lambda captures</td>
466 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3648.html">N3648</a></td>
467 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
470 <td>Generic lambdas</td>
471 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3649.html">N3649</a></td>
472 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
475 <td>Variable templates</td>
476 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3651.pdf">N3651</a></td>
477 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
480 <td>Relaxing requirements on constexpr functions</td>
481 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3652.html">N3652</a></td>
482 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
485 <td>Member initializers and aggregates</td>
486 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3653.html">N3653</a></td>
487 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
490 <td>Clarifying memory allocation</td>
491 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3664.html">N3664</a></td>
492 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
495 <td><tt>[[deprecated]]</tt> attribute</td>
496 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3760.html">N3760</a></td>
497 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
500 <td>Single quotation mark as digit separator</td>
501 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3781.pdf">N3781</a></td>
502 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
505 <td>C++ Sized Deallocation</td>
506 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3778.html">N3778</a></td>
507 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4 <a href="#n3778">(7)</a></td>
512 <span id="n3778">(7): In Clang 3.7 and later, sized deallocation is only enabled
513 if the user passes the <code>-fsized-deallocation</code> flag. The user must
514 supply definitions of the sized deallocation functions, either by providing them
515 explicitly or by using a C++ standard library that does. <code>libstdc++</code>
516 added these functions in version 5.0, and <code>libc++</code> added them in
521 <h2 id="cxx17">C++1z implementation status</h2>
523 <p>Clang has <b>experimental</b> support for some proposed features of
524 the C++ standard following C++14, provisionally named C++1z.
525 The following table describes which C++1z features
526 have been implemented in Clang and in which Clang version they became
529 <p>Note that support for these features may change or be removed without notice,
530 as the draft C++1z standard evolves.</p>
532 <p>You can use Clang in C++1z mode with the <code>-std=c++1z</code> option.</p>
534 <table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
536 <th>Language Feature</th>
537 <th>C++1z Proposal</th>
538 <th>Available in Clang?</th>
540 <!-- Issaquah papers -->
542 <td><tt>static_assert</tt> with no message</td>
543 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3928.pdf">N3928</a></td>
544 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.5</td>
546 <!-- Rapperswil papers -->
548 <td>Disabling trigraph expansion by default</td>
549 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4086.html">N4086</a></td>
550 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.5</td>
554 <td rowspan="2">Terse range-based for loops (removed from C++1z)</td>
555 <td rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3994.htm">N3994</a></td>
556 <td class="none" align="center">Clang 3.5: Yes</td>
559 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN: No</td>
563 <td><tt>typename</tt> in a template template parameter</td>
564 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4051.html">N4051</a></td>
565 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.5</td>
568 <td>New <tt>auto</tt> rules for direct-list-initialization
569 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3922.html">N3922</a></td>
570 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.8 <a href="#n3922">(8)</a></td>
572 <!-- Urbana papers -->
574 <td rowspan="2">Fold expressions</td>
575 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4295.html">N4295</a></td>
576 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
578 <tr> <!-- from Jacksonville -->
579 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0036r0">P0036R0</a></td>
580 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
583 <td><tt>u8</tt> character literals</td>
584 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4267.html">N4267</a></td>
585 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
588 <td>Nested namespace definition</td>
589 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4230.html">N4230</a></td>
590 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
593 <td>Attributes for namespaces and enumerators</td>
594 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4266.html">N4266</a></td>
595 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
598 <td>Allow constant evaluation for all non-type template arguments</td>
599 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4268.html">N4268</a></td>
600 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
604 <td>Remove deprecated <tt>register</tt> storage class</td>
605 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0001r1.html">P0001R1</a></td>
606 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.8</td>
609 <td>Remove deprecated <tt>bool</tt> increment</td>
610 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0002r1.html">P0002R1</a></td>
611 <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.8</td>
614 <td>Make exception specifications part of the type system</td>
615 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0012r1.html">P0012R1</a></td>
616 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
619 <td><tt>__has_include</tt> in preprocessor conditionals</td>
620 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0061.html">P0061R1</a></td>
621 <td class="full" align="center">Yes</td>
624 <td>New specification for inheriting constructors (<a href="cxx_dr_status.html#1941">DR1941</a> et al)</td>
625 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0136r1.html">P0136R1</a></td>
626 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
628 <!-- Jacksonville papers -->
630 <td><tt>[[fallthrough]]</tt> attribute</td>
631 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0188r1">P0188R1</a></td>
632 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
635 <td><tt>[[nodiscard]]</tt> attribute</td>
636 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0189r1">P0189R1</a></td>
637 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
640 <td><tt>[[maybe_unused]]</tt> attribute</td>
641 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0212r1">P0212R1</a></td>
642 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
645 <td>Aggregate initialization of classes with base classes</td>
646 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0017r1">P0017R1</a></td>
647 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
650 <td><tt>constexpr</tt> lambda expressions</td>
651 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0170r1">P0170R1</a></td>
652 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
655 <td>Differing <tt>begin</tt> and <tt>end</tt> types in range-based <tt>for</tt></td>
656 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0184r0">P0184R0</a></td>
657 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
660 <td>Lambda capture of <tt>*this</tt></td>
661 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0018r3">P0018R3</a></td>
662 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
665 <td>Direct-list-initialization of <tt>enum</tt>s</td>
666 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0138r2">P0138R2</a></td>
667 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
670 <td>Hexadecimal floating-point literals</td>
671 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0245r1">P0245R1</a></td>
672 <td class="full" align="center">Yes</td>
676 <td>Using attribute namespaces without repetition</td>
677 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0028r4">P0028R4</a></td>
678 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
681 <td>Dynamic memory allocation for over-aligned data</td>
682 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0035r4">P0035R4</a></td>
683 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
686 <td>Template argument deduction for class templates</td>
687 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0091r3">P0091R3</a></td>
688 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
691 <td>Non-type template parameters with <tt>auto</tt> type</td>
692 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0127r2">P0127R2</a></td>
693 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
696 <td>Guaranteed copy elision</td>
697 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0135r1">P0135R1</a></td>
698 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
701 <td>Stricter expression evaluation order (chapter 8 alternative)</td>
702 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0145r3">P0145R3</a></td>
703 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
706 <td>Requirement to ignore unknown attributes</td>
707 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0283r2">P0283R2</a></td>
708 <td class="full" align="center">Yes</td>
711 <td><tt>constexpr</tt> <em>if-statement</em>s</td>
712 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0292r2">P0292R2</a></td>
713 <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
716 <td>Inline variables</td>
717 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0386r2">P0386R2</a></td>
718 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
721 <td>Structured bindings</td>
722 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0217r3">P0217R3</a></td>
723 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
726 <td>Separate variable and condition for <tt>if</tt>, <tt>while</tt>, and <tt>switch</tt></td>
727 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0305r1">P0305R1</a></td>
728 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
733 <span id="n3922">(8): This is a backwards-incompatible change that is applied to
734 all language versions that allow type deduction from <tt>auto</tt>
735 (per the request of the C++ committee).
736 In Clang 3.7, a warning is emitted for all cases that would change meaning.
740 <h2 id="ts">Technical specifications and standing documents</h2>
742 <p>ISO C++ also publishes a number of documents describing additional language
743 and library features that are not part of standard C++. The following table
744 describes which language features have been implemented in Clang and in which
745 Clang version they became available:</p>
747 <table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
750 <th>Latest draft</th>
751 <th>Available in Clang?</th>
754 <td rowspan="2">SD-6: SG10 feature test recommendations</td>
755 <td rowspan="2"><a href="http://isocpp.org/std/standing-documents/sd-6-sg10-feature-test-recommendations">SD-6</a></td>
756 <td class="full" align="center">
757 Clang 3.4 (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3745">N3745</a>)</br>
761 <td class="full" align="center">
762 Clang 3.6 (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4200">N4200</a>)</a>
765 <!-- FIXME: Implement latest recommendations.
767 <td class="svn" align="center">
768 SVN (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0096r0">P0096R0</a>)</a>
772 <!-- No compiler support is known to be needed for:
780 <td>[TS] Concepts</td>
781 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0121r0.pdf">P0121R0</a></td>
782 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
785 <td>[TS] Library Fundamentals, Version 1 (invocation type traits)</td>
786 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4480.html">N4480</a></td>
787 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
790 <td>[DRAFT TS] Library Fundamentals, Version 2 (<tt>source_location</tt>)</td>
791 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4529.html">N4529</a></td>
792 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
795 <td>[TS] Modules</td>
796 <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0143r2">P0143R2</a></td>
797 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
800 <td>[TS] Transactional Memory</td>
801 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4514.pdf">N4514</a></td>
802 <td class="none" align="center">No</td>