Useful resources

• 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)
  • N4928 (PDF) - C++23 latest working draft (2022-12-18)
• 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
• Unicode 14.0 (2021-09-14) - The universal encoding standard for written characters

See also

• List of C++ libraries

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