C++ named requirements: StandardLayoutType (since C++11)

 

C++

Compiler support

Freestanding and hosted

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

 

C++ named requirements

Basic
DefaultConstructible CopyAssignable	CopyConstructible MoveAssignable (C++11)	MoveConstructible (C++11) Destructible
Type properties
ScalarType TriviallyCopyable (C++11)	StandardLayoutType (C++11) PODType	TrivialType (C++11) ImplicitLifetimeType
Library-Wide
EqualityComparable LessThanComparable Swappable ValueSwappable (C++11)	NullablePointer (C++11) Hash (C++11) Allocator FunctionObject	Callable Predicate BinaryPredicate Compare
Container
Container SequenceContainer ContiguousContainer (C++17)	ReversibleContainer AssociativeContainer AllocatorAwareContainer	UnorderedAssociativeContainer (C++11)
Container Elements
DefaultInsertable (C++11) CopyInsertable (C++11)	MoveInsertable (C++11) EmplaceConstructible (C++11)	Erasable (C++11)
Iterator
LegacyIterator LegacyOutputIterator LegacyInputIterator	LegacyForwardIterator LegacyBidirectionalIterator LegacyRandomAccessIterator	LegacyContiguousIterator (C++17) ConstexprIterator (C++20)
Stream I/O
FormattedInputFunction UnformattedInputFunction	FormattedOutputFunction	UnformattedOutputFunction
Formatters
BasicFormatter (C++20)	Formatter (C++20)
Random Numbers
SeedSequence (C++11) RandomNumberEngine (C++11)	RandomNumberDistribution (C++11) UniformRandomBitGenerator (C++11)	RandomNumberEngineAdaptor (C++11)
Concurrency
BasicLockable (C++11) Lockable (C++11) TimedLockable (C++11)	SharedLockable (C++14) SharedTimedLockable (C++14) Mutex (C++11)	TimedMutex (C++11) SharedMutex (C++17) SharedTimedMutex (C++14)
Ranges
RangeAdaptorObject (C++20)	RangeAdaptorClosureObject (C++20)
Other
CharTraits RegexTraits (C++11) BitmaskType LiteralType (C++11)	NumericType UnaryTypeTrait (C++11) BinaryTypeTrait (C++11) TransformationTrait (C++11)	Clock (C++11) TrivialClock (C++11)

 

Specifies that a type is a standard layout type. Standard layout types are useful for communicating with code written in other programming languages.

Note: the standard doesn't define a named requirement with this name. This is a type category defined by the core language. It is included here as a named requirement only for consistency.

Requirements

The following types are collectively called standard-layout types:

• scalar types
• standard-layout class types
• arrays of such types
• cv-qualified versions of these types

Properties

See Standard layout.

Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

DR	Applied to	Behavior as published	Correct behavior
CWG 1672	C++11	first non-static data member rule ignored existence of empty base classes	first non-static data member rule made recursive
CWG 1813	C++11	class with a member defined in an indirect base wasn't technically standard-layout	all member declarations must be in the same class
CWG 2120	C++11	array as first member wasn't considered when comparing the first element type with type of a base	array members are considered

See also

is_standard_layout (C++11)

checks if a type is a standard-layout type (class template)