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C++17 is a version of the ISO/IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language. C++17 replaced the prior version of the C++ standard, called C++14, and was later replaced by C++20.
History
Before the C++ Standards Committee fixed a 3-year release cycle, C++17's release date was uncertain. In that time period, the C++17 revision was also called C++1z, following C++0x or C++1x for C++11 and C++1y for C++14. The C++17 specification reached the Draft International Standard (DIS) stage in March 2017.[1][2] This DIS was unanimously approved, with only editorial comments,[3] and the final standard was published in December 2017.[4] Few changes were made to the C++ Standard Template Library, although some algorithms in the <algorithm>
header were given support for explicit parallelization and some syntactic enhancements were made.
New features
C++17 introduced many new features. The following lists may be incomplete.
Language
- Making the text message for
static_assert
optional[5] - Allow
typename
(as an alternative toclass
) in a template template parameter[6] - New rules for
auto
deduction from braced-init-list[7][8] - Nested namespace definitions, e.g.,
namespace X::Y { … }
instead ofnamespace X { namespace Y { … } }
[8][9] - Allowing attributes for namespaces and enumerators[10][11]
- New standard attributes
[[fallthrough]]
,[[maybe_unused]]
and[[nodiscard]]
[12] - UTF-8 (
u8
) character literals[10][13] (UTF-8 string literals have existed since C++11; C++17 adds the corresponding character literals for consistency, though as they are restricted to a single byte they can only store "Basic Latin" and C0 control codes, i.e. ASCII) - Hexadecimal floating-point literals[14][15]
- Use of
auto
as the type for a non-type template parameter[16] - Constant evaluation for all non-type template arguments[10][17]
- Fold expressions, for variadic templates[10][18]
- A compile-time static
if
with the formif constexpr(expression)
[19] - Structured binding declarations, allowing
auto [a, b] = getTwoReturnValues();
[20] - Initializers in
if
andswitch
statements[21] - copy-initialization and direct-initialization of objects of type
T
from prvalue expressions of typeT
(ignoring top-level cv-qualifiers) shall result in no copy or move constructors from the prvalue expression. See copy elision for more information. - Some extensions on over-aligned memory allocation[22]
- Class template argument deduction (CTAD), introducing constructor deduction guides, e.g. allowing
std::pair(5.0, false)
instead of requiring explicit constructor arguments typesstd::pair<double, bool>(5.0, false)
or an additional helper template functionstd::make_pair(5.0, false)
.[23][24] - Inline variables, which allows the definition of variables in header files without violating the one definition rule. The rules are effectively the same as inline functions
__has_include
, allowing the availability of a header to be checked by preprocessor directives[25]- Value of
__cplusplus
changed to201703L
[26] - Exception specifications were made part of the function type[27]
- Lambda expressions can capture "*this" by value[28]
Library
- Most of Library Fundamentals TS I, including:[29][30]
std::string_view
, a read-only non-owning reference to a character sequence or string-slice[31]std::optional
, for representing optional objects, a data type that may not always be returned by a given algorithm with support for non-returnstd::any
, for holding single values of any type
std::uncaught_exceptions
, as a replacement ofstd::uncaught_exception
in exception handling[32][10]- New insertion functions
try_emplace
andinsert_or_assign
forstd::map
andstd::unordered_map
key-value associative data structures[33][34] - Uniform container access:
std::size
,std::empty
andstd::data
[34][35] - Definition of "contiguous iterators"[34][36]
- A file system library based on
boost::filesystem
[37] - Parallel versions of STL algorithms[38]
- Additional mathematical special functions, including elliptic integrals and Bessel functions[39]
std::variant
, a tagged union container[40]std::byte
, allowing char to be replaced for data types intending to model a byte of data as a byte rather than a character[41]- Logical operator traits:
std::conjunction
,std::disjunction
andstd::negation
[42] <memory_resource>
header, for polymorphic memory resources[43]
Removed features
This revision of C++ not only added new features but also removed a few.
- Trigraphs were removed.[44][45]
- Some deprecated types and functions were removed from the standard library, including
std::auto_ptr
,std::random_shuffle
, and old function adaptors.[8][46] These were superseded in C++11 by improved facilities such asstd::unique_ptr
,std::shuffle
,std::bind
, and lambdas. - The (formerly deprecated) use of the keyword
register
as a storage class specifier was removed.[47] This keyword is still reserved but now unused.
Compiler support
- GCC has had complete support for C++17 language features since version 8.[48]
- Clang 5 and later supports all C++17 language features.[49]
- Visual Studio 2017 15.8 (MSVC 19.15) and later supports all C++17 language features.[50][51]
Library support
- libstdc++ since version 9.1 has complete support for C++17 (8.1 without Parallelism TS and referring to C99 instead of C11) [52]
- libc++ as of version 9 has partial support for C++17, with the remainder "in progress" [53]
- Visual Studio 2017 15.8 (MSVC 19.15) Standard Library and later supports all C++17 library features except for "Elementary String Conversions" and referring to C99 instead of C11. "Elementary String Conversions" is added in Visual Studio 2019 16.4[54]
See also
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