C++ The ISO C++ Standard C++11
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The C++11 standard is a major extension to the C++ standard. Below you can find an overview of the changes as they have been grouped on the isocpp FAQ with links to more detailed documentation.
Language Extensions
General Features
- auto
- decltype
- Range-for statement
- Initializer lists
- Uniform initialization syntax and semantics
- Rvalue references and move semantics
- Lambdas
- noexcept to prevent exception propagation
- constexpr
- nullptr – a null pointer literal
- Copying and rethrowing exceptions
- Inline namespaces
- User-defined literals
Classes
- =default and =delete
- Control of default move and copy
- Delegating constructors
- In-class member initializers
- Inherited constructors
- Override controls: override
- Override controls: final
- Explicit conversion operators
Other Types
- enum class
- long long – a longer integer
- Extended integer types
- Generalized unions
- Generalized PODs
Templates
- Extern templates
- Template aliases
- Variadic templates
- Local types as template arguments
Concurrency
- Concurrency memory model
- Dynamic initialization and destruction with concurrency
- Thread-local storage
Miscellaneous Language Features
- What is the value of __cplusplus for C++11?
- Suffix return type syntax
- Preventing narrowing
- Right-angle brackets
- static_assert compile-time assertions
- Raw string literals
- Attributes
- Alignment
- C99 features
Library Extensions
General
- unique_ptr
- shared_ptr
- weak_ptr
- Garbage collection ABI
- tuple
- Type traits
- function and bind
- Regular Expressions
- Time utilities
- Random number generation
- Scoped allocators
Containers and Algorithms
- Algorithms improvements
- Container improvements
- unordered_* containers
- std::array
- forward_list
Concurrency
- Threads
- Mutual exclusion
- Locks
- Condition variables
- Atomics
- Futures and promises
- async
- Abandoning a process
