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Cc: Jason Merrill ,
Marek Polacek
Subject: [PATCH] wwwdocs: Clarify experimental status of C++17 prior to GCC 9
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:42:30 +0000
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We don't currently have a single page where you can find out when
support for a given standard became non-experimental (you have to look
through all the gcc-X/changes.html pages to find it). I think we should
have that info on the cxx-status.html page. This adds it for C++17, and
we can do the same for C++20 when we declare that stable.
OK for wwwdocs?
-- >8 --
Also link to library docs for C++20 and add a cxx2a anchor which is used
by some old links.
---
htdocs/projects/cxx-status.html | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/htdocs/projects/cxx-status.html b/htdocs/projects/cxx-status.html
index b5362bba..7f59e5a2 100644
--- a/htdocs/projects/cxx-status.html
+++ b/htdocs/projects/cxx-status.html
@@ -402,10 +402,12 @@
-->
- C++20 Support in GCC
+
GCC has experimental support for the latest revision of the C++
- standard, which was published in 2020.
+ standard, which was published in 2020.
+ The status of C++20 library features is described in
+ the library documentation.
C++20 features are available since GCC 8. To enable C++20
support, add the command-line parameter -std=c++20
@@ -988,14 +990,16 @@
GCC has almost full support for the previous revision of the C++
standard, which was published in 2017.
- Some library features are missing or incomplete, as described in
+ The status of C++17 library features is described in
the library documentation.
- C++17 features are available since GCC 5. This mode is the default
- in GCC 11; it can be explicitly selected with the -std=c++17
- command-line flag, or -std=gnu++17
to enable GNU extensions
- as well.
+ C++17 mode is the default since GCC 11; it can be explicitly selected
+ with the -std=c++17
command-line flag, or
+ -std=gnu++17
to enable GNU extensions as well.
+ Some C++17 features are available since GCC 5, but support was experimental
+ and the ABI of C++17 features was not stable until GCC 9.
+
C++17 Language Features
@@ -1315,7 +1319,7 @@
GCC has full support for the of the 2014 C++ standard.
- This mode is the default in GCC 6.1 up until GCC 10 (including); it can
+
This mode is the default in GCC 6.1 up until GCC 10 (inclusive); it can
be explicitly selected with the -std=c++14
command-line flag,
or -std=gnu++14
to enable GNU extensions as well.