Abstract

This document specifies requirements for implementations of the C++ programming language. The first such requirement is that they implement the language, so this document also defines C++. Other requirements

and relaxations of the first requirement appear at various places within this document.

C++ is a general purpose programming language based on the C programming language as described in

ISO/IEC 9899:2018 Programming languages — C (hereinafter referred to as the C standard). C++ provides

many facilities beyond those provided by C, including additional data types, classes, templates, exceptions,

namespaces, operator overloading, function name overloading, references, free store management operators,

and additional library facilities.


General information 

  • Status
     :  Under development
  • Edition
     : 7
    Number of pages
     : 2101
  • Technical Committee
     : ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
  • ICS
     :
    35.060 Languages used in information technology

Sustainable Development Goals

This standard contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goal:

9
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Life cycle


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