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David Blaikie1e2b3d72011-10-14 07:58:10 +000026<h1>C++ and C++'11 Support in Clang</h1>
Cedric Venet3d658642009-02-14 20:20:19 +000027<!--*************************************************************************-->
Douglas Gregor4c9b68f2009-06-27 19:33:58 +000028<p>Last updated: $Date$</p>
Cedric Venet3d658642009-02-14 20:20:19 +000029
Douglas Gregor8c327082011-07-21 17:46:15 +000030<p>Clang currently implements all of the ISO C++ 1998 standard
31 (including the defects addressed in the ISO C++ 2003 standard)
David Blaikie1e2b3d72011-10-14 07:58:10 +000032 except for 'export' (which has been removed in C++'11)
Douglas Gregor8c327082011-07-21 17:46:15 +000033 and is considered a production-quality C++ compiler. The <a
34 href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug tracker</a> contains a Clang
35 C++ component that tracks known Clang C++ bugs.</p>
Douglas Gregor57f1a002010-02-05 23:51:14 +000036
David Blaikie1e2b3d72011-10-14 07:58:10 +000037<h2 id="cxx11">C++11 Implementation status</h2>
Chris Lattner900e32d2010-05-21 20:59:40 +000038
Douglas Gregor43ac6d02011-10-14 23:21:49 +000039 <p>Clang provides support for a number of features included in the new <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50372">ISO C++ Standard, ISO/IEC 14882:2011</a>. This section tracks the status of various C++11
David Blaikie1e2b3d72011-10-14 07:58:10 +000040features, and a number of other C++11 features are under active development.</p>
Chris Lattner900e32d2010-05-21 20:59:40 +000041
David Blaikie1e2b3d72011-10-14 07:58:10 +000042<p>You can use Clang in C++11 mode either
Jeffrey Yasskin46ba01a2011-03-29 22:27:50 +000043with <a href="http://libcxx.llvm.org/">libc++</a> or with gcc's libstdc++.
44libstdc++-4.4 requires <a href="libstdc++4.4-clang0x.patch">a patch</a> to work
45with clang; other versions have not been tested.</p>
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Cedric Venet3d658642009-02-14 20:20:19 +000047<table width="689" border="1" cellspacing="0">
Douglas Gregor43ac6d02011-10-14 23:21:49 +000048 <tr>
49 <th bgcolor="#ffddaa">Language Feature</th>
50 <th bgcolor="#ffddaa">C++0x Proposal</th>
51 <th bgcolor="#ffddaa">Available in Clang?</th>
52 </tr>
53 <tr>
54 <td>Rvalue references</td>
55 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2118.html">N2118</a></td>
56 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
57 </tr>
58 <tr>
59 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rvalue references for <code>*this</code></td>
60 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2439.htm">N2439</a></td>
61 <td align="center">Clang 2.9<br/></td>
62 </tr>
63 <tr>
64 <td>Initialization of class objects by rvalues</td>
65 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1610.html">N1610</a></td>
66 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
67 </tr>
68 <tr>
69 <td>Non-static data member initializers</td>
70 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2008/n2756.htm">N2756</a></td>
71 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</a></td>
72 </tr>
73 <tr>
74 <td>Variadic templates</td>
75 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2242.pdf">N2242</a></td>
76 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
77 </tr>
78 <tr>
79 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Extending variadic template template parameters</td>
80 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2555.pdf">N2555</a></td>
81 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
82 </tr>
83 <tr>
84 <td>Initializer lists</td>
85 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2672.htm">N2672</a></td>
86 <td align="center">No</td>
87 </tr>
88 <tr>
89 <td>Static assertions</td>
90 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1720.html">N1720</a></td>
91 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
92 </tr>
93 <tr>
94 <td><code>auto</code>-typed variables</td>
95 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1984.pdf">N1984</a></td>
96 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
97 </tr>
98 <tr>
99 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Multi-declarator <code>auto</code></td>
100 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1737.pdf">N1737</a></td>
101 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
102 </tr>
103 <tr>
104 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Removal of auto as a storage-class specifier</td>
105 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2546.htm">N2546</a></td>
106 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
107 </tr>
108 <tr>
109 <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;New function declarator syntax</td>
110 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2541.htm">N2541</a></td>
111 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
112 </tr>
113 <tr>
114 <td>New wording for C++0x lambdas</td>
115 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2927.pdf">N2927</a></td>
116 <td align="center">No</td>
117 </tr>
118 <tr>
119 <td>Declared type of an expression</td>
120 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2343.pdf">N2343</a></td>
121 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
122 </tr>
123 <tr>
124 <td>Right angle brackets</td>
125 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1757.html">N1757</a></td>
126 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
127 </tr>
128 <tr>
129 <td>Default template arguments for function templates</td>
130 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#226">DR226</a></td>
131 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
132 </tr>
133 <tr>
134 <td>Solving the SFINAE problem for expressions</td>
135 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2634.html">DR339</a></td>
136 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
137 </tr>
138 <tr>
139 <td>Alias templates</td>
140 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2258.pdf">N2258</a></td>
141 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
142 </tr>
143 <tr>
144 <td>Extern templates</td>
145 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1987.htm">N1987</a></td>
146 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
147 </tr>
148 <tr>
149 <td>Null pointer constant</td>
150 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2431.pdf">N2431</a></td>
151 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
152 </tr>
153 <tr>
154 <td>Strongly-typed enums</td>
155 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2347.pdf">N2347</a></td>
156 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
157 </tr>
158 <tr>
159 <td>Forward declarations for enums</td>
160 <td>
161 <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2764.pdf">N2764
162 </a></td>
163 <td align="center">No</td>
164 </tr>
165 <tr>
166 <td>Generalized attributes</td>
167 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2761.pdf">N2761</a></td>
168 <td align="center">No</td>
169 </tr>
170 <tr>
171 <td>Generalized constant expressions</td>
172 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2235.pdf">N2235</a></td>
173 <td align="center">No</td>
174 </tr>
175 <tr>
176 <td>Alignment support</td>
177 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2341.pdf">N2341</a></td>
178 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
179 </tr>
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182 <tr>
183 <td>Delegating constructors</td>
184 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1986.pdf">N1986</a></td>
185 <td align="center">Clang 3.0<br/></td>
186 </tr>
187 <tr>
188 <td>Inheriting constructors</td>
189 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2540.htm">N2540</a></td>
190 <td align="center">No</td>
191 </tr>
192 <tr>
193 <td>Explicit conversion operators</td>
194 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2437.pdf">N2437</a></td>
195 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
196 </tr>
197 <tr>
198 <td>New character types</td>
199 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2249.html">N2249</a></td>
200 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
201 </tr>
202 <tr>
203 <td>Unicode string literals</td>
204 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2442.htm">N2442</a></td>
205 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
206 </tr>
207 <tr>
208 <td>Raw string literals</td>
209 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2442.htm">N2442</a></td>
210 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
211 </tr>
212 <tr>
213 <td>Universal character name literals</td>
214 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2170.html">N2170</a></td>
215 <td align="center">No</td>
216 </tr>
217 <tr>
218 <td>User-defined literals</td>
219 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2765.pdf">N2765</a></td>
220 <td align="center">No</td>
221 </tr>
222 <tr>
223 <td>Standard Layout Types</td>
224 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2342.htm">N2342</a></td>
225 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
226 </tr>
227 <tr>
228 <td>Defaulted and deleted functions</td>
229 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2346.htm">N2346</a></td>
230 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
231 </tr>
232 <tr>
233 <td>Extended friend declarations</td>
234 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1791.pdf">N1791</a></td>
235 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
236 </tr>
237 <tr>
238 <td>Extending <code>sizeof</code></td>
239 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2253.html">N2253</a></td>
240 <td align="center">No</td>
241 </tr>
242 <tr>
243 <td>Inline namespaces</td>
244 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2535.htm">N2535</a></td>
245 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
246 </tr>
247 <tr>
248 <td>Unrestricted unions</td>
249 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2544.pdf">N2544</a></td>
250 <td align="center">No</td>
251 </tr>
252 <tr>
253 <td>Local and unnamed types as template arguments</td>
254 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2657.htm">N2657</a></td>
255 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
256 </tr>
257 <tr>
258 <td>Range-based for</td>
259 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2930.html">N2930</a></td>
260 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
261 </tr>
262 <tr>
263 <td>Explicit virtual overrides</td>
264 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2928.htm">N2928</a>
265 <br/><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3206.htm">N3206</a>
266<br/><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n3272.htm">N3272</a></td>
267 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
268 </tr>
269 <tr>
270 <td>Minimal support for garbage collection and reachability-based leak detection</td>
271 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2670.htm">N2670</a></td>
272 <td align="center">No</td>
273 </tr>
274 <tr>
275 <td>Allowing move constructors to throw [noexcept]</td>
276 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3050.htm">N3050</a></td>
277 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
278 </tr>
279 <tr>
280 <td>Defining move special member functions</td>
281 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3053.htm">N3053</a></td>
282 <td align="center">Clang 3.0</td>
283 </tr>
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286 <th align="center" colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffddaa">Concurrency</th>
287 </tr>
288 <tr>
289 <td>Sequence points</td>
290 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2239.html">N2239</a></td>
291 <td align="center">No</td>
292 </tr>
293 <tr>
294 <td>Atomic operations</td>
295 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2427.html">N2427</a></td>
296 <td align="center">No</td>
297 </tr>
298 <tr>
299 <td>Strong Compare and Exchange</td>
300 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2748.html">N2748</a></td>
301 <td align="center">No</td>
302 </tr>
303 <tr>
304 <td>Bidirectional Fences</td>
305 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2752.htm">N2752</a></td>
306 <td align="center">No</td>
307 </tr>
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Douglas Gregor43ac6d02011-10-14 23:21:49 +0000309 <tr>
310 <td>Memory model</td>
311 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2429.htm">N2429</a></td>
312 <td align="center">No</td>
313 </tr>
314 <tr>
315 <td>Data-dependency ordering: atomics and memory model</td>
316 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2664.htm">N2664</a></td>
317 <td align="center">No</td>
318 </tr>
319 <tr>
320 <td>Propagating exceptions</td>
321 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2179.html">N2179</a></td>
322 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
323 </tr>
324 <tr>
325 <td>Abandoning a process and at_quick_exit</td>
326 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2440.htm">N2440</a></td>
327 <td align="center">No</td>
328 </tr>
329 <tr>
330 <td>Allow atomics use in signal handlers</td>
331 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2547.htm">N2547</a></td>
332 <td align="center"><span class="unsupported">No</span></td>
333 </tr>
334 <tr>
335 <td>Thread-local storage</td>
336 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2659.htm">N2659</a></td>
337 <td align="center">No</td>
338 </tr>
339 <tr>
340 <td>Dynamic initialization and destruction with concurrency</td>
341 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2660.htm">N2660</a></td>
342 <td align="center">No</td>
343 </tr>
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346 <th align="center" colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffddaa">C99 Features in C++0x</th>
347 </tr>
348 <tr>
349 <td><code>__func__</code> predefined identifier</td>
350 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2340.htm">N2340</a></td>
351 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
352 </tr>
353 <tr>
354 <td>C99 preprocessor</td>
355 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1653.htm">N1653</a></td>
356 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
357 </tr>
358 <tr>
359 <td><code>long long</code></td>
360 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1811.pdf">N1811</a></td>
361 <td align="center">Clang 2.9</td>
362 </tr>
363 <tr>
364 <td>Extended integral types</td>
365 <td><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1988.pdf">N1988</a></td>
366 <td align="center">No</td>
367 </tr>
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