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27<h1>C++ Support in Clang</h1>
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29<p>Last updated: $Date$</p>
30
31<p>Clang fully implements all published ISO C++ standards including <a
32href="#cxx11">C++11</a>, as well as the upcoming <a
33href="#cxx14">C++14</a> standard, and some parts of the fledgling <a
34href="#cxx17">C++1z</a> standard,
35and is considered a production-quality C++ compiler.
36
37<p>The Clang community is continually striving to improve C++ standards
38compliance between releases by submitting and tracking <a
39href="cxx_dr_status.html">C++ Defect Reports</a> and implementing resolutions
40as they become available.</p>
41
42<p>Experimental work is also under way to implement <a href="#ts">C++ Technical
43Specifications</a> that will help drive the future of the C++ programming
44language.</p>
45
46<p>The <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug tracker</a> contains Clang
47C++ components that track known bugs with Clang's language conformance in
48each language mode.</p>
49
50<h2 id="cxx98">C++98 implementation status</h2>
51
52<p>Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998 standard
53  (including the defects addressed in the ISO C++ 2003 standard)
54  except for <tt>export</tt> (which was removed in C++11).
55
56<h2 id="cxx11">C++11 implementation status</h2>
57
58  <p>Clang 3.3 and later implement all of the <a
59    href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50372">ISO
60    C++ 2011 standard</a>. The following table describes the Clang version
61  in which each feature became available.</p>
62
63<p>By default, Clang builds C++ code according to the C++98 standard, with many
64C++11 features accepted as extensions. You can use Clang in C++11 mode with the
65<code>-std=c++11</code> option. Clang's C++11 mode can be used
66with <a href="http://libcxx.llvm.org/">libc++</a> or with gcc's libstdc++, but
67patches are needed to make <a href="libstdc++4.4-clang0x.patch">libstdc++-4.4</a>
68work with Clang in C++11 mode. Patches are also needed to make
69<a href="libstdc++4.6-clang11.patch">libstdc++-4.6</a>
70and <a href="libstdc++4.7-clang11.patch">libstdc++-4.7</a> work with Clang
71releases prior to version 3.2 in C++11 mode.
72
73<table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
74 <tr>
75    <th>Language Feature</th>
76    <th>C++11 Proposal</th>
77    <th>Available in Clang?</th>
78 </tr>
79     <tr>
80      <td>Rvalue references</td>
81      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2118.html">N2118</a></td>
82      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
83    </tr>
84    <tr>
85      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rvalue references for <code>*this</code></td>
86      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2439.htm">N2439</a></td>
87      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
88    </tr>
89    <tr>
90      <td>Initialization of class objects by rvalues</td>
91      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1610.html">N1610</a></td>
92      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
93    </tr>
94    <tr>
95      <td>Non-static data member initializers</td>
96      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2008/n2756.htm">N2756</a></td>
97      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
98    </tr>
99    <tr>
100      <td>Variadic templates</td>
101      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2242.pdf">N2242</a></td>
102      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
103    </tr>
104    <tr>
105      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Extending variadic template template parameters</td>
106      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2555.pdf">N2555</a></td>
107      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
108    </tr>
109    <tr>
110      <td>Initializer lists</td>
111      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2672.htm">N2672</a></td>
112      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
113    </tr>
114    <tr>
115      <td>Static assertions</td>
116      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1720.html">N1720</a></td>
117      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
118    </tr>
119    <tr>
120      <td><code>auto</code>-typed variables</td>
121      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1984.pdf">N1984</a></td>
122      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
123    </tr>
124    <tr>
125      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Multi-declarator <code>auto</code></td>
126      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1737.pdf">N1737</a></td>
127      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
128    </tr>
129    <tr>
130      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Removal of auto as a storage-class specifier</td>
131      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2546.htm">N2546</a></td>
132      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
133    </tr>
134    <tr>
135      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;New function declarator syntax</td>
136      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2541.htm">N2541</a></td>
137      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
138    </tr>
139    <tr>
140      <td>Lambda expressions</td>
141      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2927.pdf">N2927</a></td>
142      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
143    </tr>
144    <tr>
145      <td>Declared type of an expression</td>
146      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2343.pdf">N2343</a></td>
147      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
148    </tr>
149    <tr>
150      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Incomplete return types</td>
151      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n3276.pdf">N3276</a></td>
152      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
153    </tr>
154    <tr>
155      <td>Right angle brackets</td>
156      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1757.html">N1757</a></td>
157      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
158    </tr>
159    <tr>
160      <td>Default template arguments for function templates</td>
161      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#226">DR226</a></td>
162      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
163    </tr>
164    <tr>
165      <td>Solving the SFINAE problem for expressions</td>
166      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2634.html">DR339</a></td>
167      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
168    </tr>
169    <tr>
170      <td>Alias templates</td>
171      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2258.pdf">N2258</a></td>
172      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
173    </tr>
174    <tr>
175      <td>Extern templates</td>
176      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1987.htm">N1987</a></td>
177      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
178    </tr>
179    <tr>
180      <td>Null pointer constant</td>
181      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2431.pdf">N2431</a></td>
182      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
183    </tr>
184    <tr>
185      <td>Strongly-typed enums</td>
186      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2347.pdf">N2347</a></td>
187      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
188    </tr>
189    <tr>
190      <td>Forward declarations for enums</td>
191      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2764.pdf">N2764</a>
192      <br><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#1206">DR1206</a></td>
193      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
194    </tr>
195    <tr>
196      <td>Standardized attribute syntax</td>
197      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2761.pdf">N2761</a></td>
198      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3 <a href="#n2761">(1)</a></td>
199    </tr>
200    <tr>
201      <td>Generalized constant expressions</td>
202      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2235.pdf">N2235</a></td>
203      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
204    </tr>
205    <tr>
206      <td>Alignment support</td>
207      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2341.pdf">N2341</a></td>
208      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
209    </tr>
210    <tr>
211      <td>Conditionally-support behavior</td>
212      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1627.pdf">N1627</a></td>
213      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
214    </tr>
215    <tr>
216      <td>Changing undefined behavior into diagnosable errors</td>
217      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1727.pdf">N1727</a></td>
218      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
219    </tr>
220    <tr>
221      <td>Delegating constructors</td>
222      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1986.pdf">N1986</a></td>
223      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
224    </tr>
225    <tr>
226      <td>Inheriting constructors</td>
227      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2540.htm">N2540</a></td>
228      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
229    </tr>
230    <tr>
231      <td>Explicit conversion operators</td>
232      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2437.pdf">N2437</a></td>
233      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
234    </tr>
235    <tr>
236      <td>New character types</td>
237      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2249.html">N2249</a></td>
238      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
239    </tr>
240    <tr>
241      <td>Unicode string literals</td>
242      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2442.htm">N2442</a></td>
243      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
244    </tr>
245    <tr>
246      <td>Raw string literals</td>
247      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2442.htm">N2442</a></td>
248      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
249    </tr>
250    <tr>
251      <td>Universal character names in literals</td>
252      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2170.html">N2170</a></td>
253      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
254    </tr>
255    <tr>
256      <td>User-defined literals</td>
257      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2765.pdf">N2765</a></td>
258      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
259    </tr>
260    <tr>
261      <td>Standard Layout Types</td>
262      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2342.htm">N2342</a></td>
263      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
264    </tr>
265    <tr>
266      <td>Defaulted functions</td>
267      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2346.htm">N2346</a></td>
268      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
269    </tr>
270    <tr>
271      <td>Deleted functions</td>
272      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2346.htm">N2346</a></td>
273      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
274    </tr>
275    <tr>
276      <td>Extended friend declarations</td>
277      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1791.pdf">N1791</a></td>
278      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
279    </tr>
280    <tr>
281      <td>Extending <code>sizeof</code></td>
282      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2253.html">N2253</a>
283      <br><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#850">DR850</a></td>
284      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
285    </tr>
286    <tr>
287      <td>Inline namespaces</td>
288      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2535.htm">N2535</a></td>
289      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
290    </tr>
291    <tr>
292      <td>Unrestricted unions</td>
293      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2544.pdf">N2544</a></td>
294      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
295    </tr>
296    <tr>
297      <td>Local and unnamed types as template arguments</td>
298      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2657.htm">N2657</a></td>
299      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
300    </tr>
301    <tr>
302      <td>Range-based for</td>
303      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2930.html">N2930</a></td>
304      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
305    </tr>
306    <tr>
307      <td>Explicit virtual overrides</td>
308      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2928.htm">N2928</a>
309      <br><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3206.htm">N3206</a>
310      <br><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n3272.htm">N3272</a></td>
311      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
312    </tr>
313    <tr>
314      <td>Minimal support for garbage collection and reachability-based leak detection</td>
315      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2670.htm">N2670</a></td>
316      <td class="na" align="center">N/A <a href="#n2670">(2)</a></td>
317    </tr>
318    <tr>
319      <td>Allowing move constructors to throw [noexcept]</td>
320      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3050.html">N3050</a></td>
321      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
322    </tr>
323    <tr>
324      <td>Defining move special member functions</td>
325      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3053.html">N3053</a></td>
326      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
327    </tr>
328
329    <tr class="separator">
330      <th align="center" colspan="3">Concurrency</th>
331    </tr>
332    <tr>
333      <td>Sequence points</td>
334      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2239.html">N2239</a></td>
335      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
336    </tr>
337    <tr>
338      <td>Atomic operations</td>
339      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2427.html">N2427</a></td>
340      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
341    </tr>
342    <tr>
343      <td>Strong Compare and Exchange</td>
344      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2748.html">N2748</a></td>
345      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1 <a href="#n2748">(3)</a></td>
346    </tr>
347    <tr>
348      <td>Bidirectional Fences</td>
349      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2752.htm">N2752</a></td>
350      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
351    </tr>
352
353    <tr>
354      <td>Memory model</td>
355      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2429.htm">N2429</a></td>
356      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.2</td>
357    </tr>
358    <tr>
359      <td>Data-dependency ordering: atomics and memory model</td>
360      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2664.htm">N2664</a></td>
361      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.2 <a href="#n2664">(4)</a></td>
362    </tr>
363    <tr>
364      <td>Propagating exceptions</td>
365      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2179.html">N2179</a></td>
366      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
367    </tr>
368    <tr>
369      <td>Allow atomics use in signal handlers</td>
370      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2547.htm">N2547</a></td>
371      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.1</td>
372    </tr>
373    <tr>
374      <td>Thread-local storage</td>
375      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2659.htm">N2659</a></td>
376      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3 <a href="#n2659">(5)</a></td>
377    </tr>
378    <tr>
379      <td>Dynamic initialization and destruction with concurrency</td>
380      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2660.htm">N2660</a></td>
381      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
382    </tr>
383
384    <tr class="separator">
385      <th align="center" colspan="3">C99 Features in C++11</th>
386    </tr>
387    <tr>
388      <td><code>__func__</code> predefined identifier</td>
389      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2340.htm">N2340</a></td>
390      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
391    </tr>
392    <tr>
393      <td>C99 preprocessor</td>
394      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1653.htm">N1653</a></td>
395      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
396    </tr>
397    <tr>
398      <td><code>long long</code></td>
399      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1811.pdf">N1811</a></td>
400      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
401    </tr>
402    <tr>
403      <td>Extended integral types</td>
404      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1988.pdf">N1988</a></td>
405      <td class="na" align="center">N/A <a href="#n1988">(6)</a></td>
406    </tr>
407</table>
408
409<p>
410<span id="n2761">(1): The <code>[[carries_dependency]]</code> attribute
411has no effect.</span><br>
412<span id="n2670">(2): No compiler changes are required for an implementation
413such as Clang that does not provide garbage collection.</span><br>
414<span id="n2748">(3): All compare-exchange operations are emitted as
415strong compare-exchanges.</span><br>
416<span id="n2664">(4): <code>memory_order_consume</code> is lowered to
417<code>memory_order_acquire</code>.</span><br>
418<span id="n2659">(5): <code>thread_local</code> support
419requires a C++ runtime library providing <code>__cxa_thread_atexit</code>, such
420as <a href="http://libcxxabi.llvm.org">libc++abi</a> 3.6 or later,
421or libsupc++ 4.8 or later.</span><br>
422<span id="n1988">(6): No compiler changes are required for an implementation
423such as Clang that does not provide any extended integer types.
424<code>__int128</code> is not treated as an extended integer type,
425because changing <code>intmax_t</code> would be an ABI-incompatible
426change.</span>
427</p>
428
429<h2 id="cxx14">C++14 implementation status</h2>
430
431<p>Clang 3.4 and later implement all of the Draft International Standard (see <a
432href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3797.pdf">most
433recent publicly available draft</a>)
434of the upcoming C++14 language standard. The following table describes the
435Clang version in which each feature became available.</p>
436
437<p>You can use Clang in C++14 mode with the <code>-std=c++14</code> option
438(use <code>-std=c++1y</code> in Clang 3.4 and earlier).</p>
439
440<table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
441 <tr>
442    <th>Language Feature</th>
443    <th>C++14 Proposal</th>
444    <th>Available in Clang?</th>
445 </tr>
446    <tr>
447      <td>Tweak to certain C++ contextual conversions</td>
448      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3323.pdf">N3323</a></td>
449      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
450    </tr>
451    <tr>
452      <td>Binary literals</td>
453      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3472.pdf">N3472</a></td>
454      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
455    </tr>
456    <tr>
457      <td>decltype(auto)</td>
458      <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>
459      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
460    </tr>
461    <tr>
462      <td>Return type deduction for normal functions</td>
463      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
464    </tr>
465    <tr>
466      <td>Initialized lambda captures</td>
467      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3648.html">N3648</a></td>
468      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
469    </tr>
470    <tr>
471      <td>Generic lambdas</td>
472      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3649.html">N3649</a></td>
473      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
474    </tr>
475    <tr>
476      <td>Variable templates</td>
477      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3651.pdf">N3651</a></td>
478      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
479    </tr>
480    <tr>
481      <td>Relaxing requirements on constexpr functions</td>
482      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3652.html">N3652</a></td>
483      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
484    </tr>
485    <tr>
486      <td>Member initializers and aggregates</td>
487      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3653.html">N3653</a></td>
488      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.3</td>
489    </tr>
490    <tr>
491      <td>Clarifying memory allocation</td>
492      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3664.html">N3664</a></td>
493      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
494    </tr>
495    <tr>
496      <td><tt>[[deprecated]]</tt> attribute</td>
497      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3760.html">N3760</a></td>
498      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
499    </tr>
500    <tr>
501      <td>Single quotation mark as digit separator</td>
502      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3781.pdf">N3781</a></td>
503      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4</td>
504    </tr>
505    <tr>
506      <td>C++ Sized Deallocation</td>
507      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3778.html">N3778</a></td>
508      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.4 <a href="#n3778">(7)</a></td>
509    </tr>
510</table>
511
512<p>
513<span id="n3778">(7): In Clang 3.7 and later, sized deallocation is only enabled
514if the user passes the <code>-fsized-deallocation</code> flag. The user must
515supply definitions of the sized deallocation functions, either by providing them
516explicitly or by using a C++ standard library that does. <code>libstdc++</code>
517added these functions in version 5.0, and <code>libc++</code> added them in
518version 3.7.
519</span>
520</p>
521
522<h2 id="cxx17">C++1z implementation status</h2>
523
524<p>Clang has <b>experimental</b> support for some proposed features of
525the C++ standard following C++14, provisionally named C++1z.
526The following table describes which C++1z features
527have been implemented in Clang and in which Clang version they became
528available.</p>
529
530<p>Note that support for these features may change or be removed without notice,
531as the draft C++1z standard evolves.</p>
532
533<p>You can use Clang in C++1z mode with the <code>-std=c++1z</code> option.</p>
534
535<table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
536 <tr>
537    <th>Language Feature</th>
538    <th>C++1z Proposal</th>
539    <th>Available in Clang?</th>
540 </tr>
541    <!-- Issaquah papers -->
542    <tr>
543      <td><tt>static_assert</tt> with no message</td>
544      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3928.pdf">N3928</a></td>
545      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.5</td>
546    </tr>
547    <!-- Rapperswil papers -->
548    <tr>
549      <td>Disabling trigraph expansion by default</td>
550      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4086.html">N4086</a></td>
551      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.5</td>
552    </tr>
553    <!--
554    <tr>
555      <td rowspan="2">Terse range-based for loops (removed from C++1z)</td>
556      <td rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3994.htm">N3994</a></td>
557      <td class="none" align="center">Clang 3.5: Yes</td>
558    </tr>
559    <tr>
560      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN: No</td>
561    </tr>
562    -->
563    <tr>
564      <td><tt>typename</tt> in a template template parameter</td>
565      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4051.html">N4051</a></td>
566      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.5</td>
567    </tr>
568    <tr>
569      <td>New <tt>auto</tt> rules for direct-list-initialization
570      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3922.html">N3922</a></td>
571      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.8 <a href="#n3922">(8)</a></td>
572    </tr>
573    <!-- Urbana papers -->
574    <tr>
575      <td rowspan="2">Fold expressions</td>
576      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4295.html">N4295</a></td>
577      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
578    </tr>
579      <tr> <!-- from Jacksonville -->
580        <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0036r0">P0036R0</a></td>
581        <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
582      </tr>
583    <tr>
584      <td><tt>u8</tt> character literals</td>
585      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4267.html">N4267</a></td>
586      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
587    </tr>
588    <tr>
589      <td>Nested namespace definition</td>
590      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4230.html">N4230</a></td>
591      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
592    </tr>
593    <tr>
594      <td>Attributes for namespaces and enumerators</td>
595      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4266.html">N4266</a></td>
596      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
597    </tr>
598    <tr>
599      <td>Allow constant evaluation for all non-type template arguments</td>
600      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4268.html">N4268</a></td>
601      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.6</td>
602    </tr>
603    <!-- Kona papers -->
604    <tr>
605      <td>Remove deprecated <tt>register</tt> storage class</td>
606      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0001r1.html">P0001R1</a></td>
607      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.8</td>
608    </tr>
609    <tr>
610      <td>Remove deprecated <tt>bool</tt> increment</td>
611      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0002r1.html">P0002R1</a></td>
612      <td class="full" align="center">Clang 3.8</td>
613    </tr>
614    <tr>
615      <td>Make exception specifications part of the type system</td>
616      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0012r1.html">P0012R1</a></td>
617      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
618    </tr>
619    <tr>
620      <td><tt>__has_include</tt> in preprocessor conditionals</td>
621      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0061.html">P0061R1</a></td>
622      <td class="full" align="center">Yes</td>
623    </tr>
624    <tr>
625      <td>New specification for inheriting constructors (<a href="cxx_dr_status.html#1941">DR1941</a> et al)</td>
626      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0136r1.html">P0136R1</a></td>
627      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN <a href="#p0136">(9)</a></td>
628    </tr>
629    <!-- Jacksonville papers -->
630    <tr>
631      <td><tt>[[fallthrough]]</tt> attribute</td>
632      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0188r1">P0188R1</a></td>
633      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
634    </tr>
635    <tr>
636      <td><tt>[[nodiscard]]</tt> attribute</td>
637      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0189r1">P0189R1</a></td>
638      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
639    </tr>
640    <tr>
641      <td><tt>[[maybe_unused]]</tt> attribute</td>
642      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0212r1">P0212R1</a></td>
643      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
644    </tr>
645    <tr>
646      <td>Aggregate initialization of classes with base classes</td>
647      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0017r1">P0017R1</a></td>
648      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
649    </tr>
650    <tr>
651      <td><tt>constexpr</tt> lambda expressions</td>
652      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0170r1">P0170R1</a></td>
653      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
654    </tr>
655    <tr>
656      <td>Differing <tt>begin</tt> and <tt>end</tt> types in range-based <tt>for</tt></td>
657      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0184r0">P0184R0</a></td>
658      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
659    </tr>
660    <tr>
661      <td>Lambda capture of <tt>*this</tt></td>
662      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0018r3">P0018R3</a></td>
663      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
664    </tr>
665    <tr>
666      <td>Direct-list-initialization of <tt>enum</tt>s</td>
667      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0138r2">P0138R2</a></td>
668      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
669    </tr>
670    <tr>
671      <td>Hexadecimal floating-point literals</td>
672      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0245r1">P0245R1</a></td>
673      <td class="full" align="center">Yes</td>
674    </tr>
675    <!-- Oulu papers -->
676    <tr>
677      <td>Using attribute namespaces without repetition</td>
678      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0028r4">P0028R4</a></td>
679      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
680    </tr>
681    <tr>
682      <td>Dynamic memory allocation for over-aligned data</td>
683      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0035r4">P0035R4</a></td>
684      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
685    </tr>
686    <tr>
687      <td>Template argument deduction for class templates</td>
688      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0091r3">P0091R3</a></td>
689      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
690    </tr>
691    <tr>
692      <td>Non-type template parameters with <tt>auto</tt> type</td>
693      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0127r2">P0127R2</a></td>
694      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
695    </tr>
696    <tr>
697      <td>Guaranteed copy elision</td>
698      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0135r1">P0135R1</a></td>
699      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
700    </tr>
701    <tr>
702      <td rowspan=2>Stricter expression evaluation order</td>
703      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0145r3">P0145R3</a></td>
704      <td class="none" align="center" rowspan=2>No</td>
705    </tr>
706    <tr>
707      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0400r0">P0400R0</a></td>
708    </tr>
709    <tr>
710      <td>Requirement to ignore unknown attributes</td>
711      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0283r2">P0283R2</a></td>
712      <td class="full" align="center">Yes</td>
713    </tr>
714    <tr>
715      <td><tt>constexpr</tt> <em>if-statement</em>s</td>
716      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0292r2">P0292R2</a></td>
717      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
718    </tr>
719    <tr>
720      <td>Inline variables</td>
721      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0386r2">P0386R2</a></td>
722      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
723    </tr>
724    <tr>
725      <td>Structured bindings</td>
726      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0217r3">P0217R3</a></td>
727      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
728    </tr>
729    <tr>
730      <td>Separate variable and condition for <tt>if</tt> and <tt>switch</tt></td>
731      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0305r1">P0305R1</a></td>
732      <td class="svn" align="center">SVN</td>
733    </tr>
734</table>
735
736<p>
737<span id="n3922">(8): This is a backwards-incompatible change that is applied to
738all language versions that allow type deduction from <tt>auto</tt>
739(per the request of the C++ committee).
740In Clang 3.7, a warning is emitted for all cases that would change meaning.
741</span><br>
742<span id="p0136">(9): This is the resolution to a Defect Report, so is applied
743to all language versions supporting inheriting constructors.
744</span>
745</p>
746
747<h2 id="ts">Technical specifications and standing documents</h2>
748
749<p>ISO C++ also publishes a number of documents describing additional language
750and library features that are not part of standard C++. The following table
751describes which language features have been implemented in Clang and in which
752Clang version they became available:</p>
753
754<table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
755 <tr>
756    <th>Document</th>
757    <th>Latest draft</th>
758    <th>Available in Clang?</th>
759 </tr>
760    <tr>
761      <td rowspan="2">SD-6: SG10 feature test recommendations</td>
762      <td rowspan="2"><a href="http://isocpp.org/std/standing-documents/sd-6-sg10-feature-test-recommendations">SD-6</a></td>
763      <td class="full" align="center">
764        Clang 3.4 (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3745">N3745</a>)</br>
765      </td>
766    </tr>
767    <tr>
768      <td class="full" align="center">
769        Clang 3.6 (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4200">N4200</a>)</a>
770      </td>
771    </tr>
772    <!-- FIXME: Implement latest recommendations.
773    <tr>
774      <td class="svn" align="center">
775        SVN (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0096r0">P0096R0</a>)</a>
776      </td>
777    </tr>
778    -->
779    <!-- No compiler support is known to be needed for:
780           * Concurrency TS
781           * Parallelism TS
782           * Ranges TS
783           * Networking TS
784           * File System TS
785    -->
786    <tr>
787      <td>[TS] Concepts</td>
788      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0121r0.pdf">P0121R0</a></td>
789      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
790    </tr>
791    <tr>
792      <td>[TS] Library Fundamentals, Version 1 (invocation type traits)</td>
793      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4480.html">N4480</a></td>
794      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
795    </tr>
796    <tr>
797      <td>[DRAFT TS] Library Fundamentals, Version 2 (<tt>source_location</tt>)</td>
798      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4529.html">N4529</a></td>
799      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
800    </tr>
801    <tr>
802      <td>[TS] Modules</td>
803      <td><a href="http://wg21.link/p0143r2">P0143R2</a></td>
804      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
805    </tr>
806    <tr>
807      <td>[TS] Transactional Memory</td>
808      <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4514.pdf">N4514</a></td>
809      <td class="none" align="center">No</td>
810    </tr>
811</table>
812
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