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Standard C++ Foundation

• isocpp.org — Non-profit hub for C++ news, articles, and events.

• C++ FAQ — Unified FAQ by the Standard C++ Foundation.
• Mailing lists — The official public mailing lists.

C++ FAQs

• Bjarne Stroustrup FAQ — Answers to the frequently asked questions from the creator of the language.
• Bjarne Stroustrup C++11 FAQ — Additional FAQ regarding the recent changes to the C++ language standards.
• StackOverflow.com C++ FAQ — Best answers to the frequently asked C++ questions on the programmers' Q&A website.

C++ standard documents and drafts

• JTC1/SC22/WG21 — The C++ Standards Committee, includes draft C++ language standards, proposals, and defect reports.
  • N1146 (PDF) — C++98 final working draft.
  • N1804 (PDF) — A working draft in early years (2005-04-27).
  • N3337 (PDF, HTML) — C++11 first post-publication draft (2012-01-16).
  • N4140 (PDF, HTML) — C++14 final working draft (2014-10-07).
  • N4659 (PDF, HTML) — C++17 final working draft (2017-03-21).
  • N4861 (PDF, HTML) — C++20 final working draft (2020-04-01).
  • N4950 (PDF, HTML) — C++23 final working draft (2023-05-10).
  • N5008 (PDF) — C++ latest working draft (2025-03-15).
• cplusplus/draft — The official GitHub repository of current draft.
• eel.is/c++draft — HTML version of current draft.

C++ language and library references

• Apache — Reference manual for the Apache implementation of the C++ standard library.
• IBM AIX 16.1 IBM zOS 3.1.0 — Reference manual for the IBM implementation of C and C++ core languages.
• IBM AIX 16.1 — Reference manual for the IBM implementations of the C++ standard library.
• MSDN — Reference manual for the Microsoft implementation of the C++ core language.
• MSDN — Reference manual for the Microsoft implementation of the C++ library.
  • Dinkumware — C++ Standard Library implementation that ships with Microsoft Visual C++.
  • Open STL — MSVC's implementation of modern C++ Standard Library.
• GNU libstdc++ — Reference manual for the GNU implementation of the C++ library.
  • libstdc++-v3 — GNU implementation of the C++ library.
• libc++ documentation — clang/llvm project's documentation for the implementation of the C++ Standard Library.
  • libc++ — clang/llvm implementation of the C++ Standard Library.
• HP — Reference manual for the Dinkumware implementation of the C++ library (as licensed to HP).
• EWL — Reference manual for the Embedded Warrior implementation of the C++ library.
• cplusplus.com — Unofficial C++ standard library reference.
• SGI STL (hosted on rrsd.com) — Reference for STL, the 1994 library that introduced many concepts later adopted by the C++ standard library.

C++ ABIs

• Itanium C++ ABI — De-facto C++ ABI standard, adopted by

• System V ABI.
• ARM C++ ABI.

Patterns, idioms, tips and tricks

• C++ Core Guidelines — By Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter.
• C++ Patterns — Modern C++ examples created by the community.
• More C++ Idioms — At wikibooks.org.
• CeePlusPlusIdioms — At c2.com.
• Welcome Back to C++ — Learn modern C++ (MSDN).

Related standards

• JTC1/SC22/WG14 — The C Standards Committee, includes draft C language standards, proposals, and defect reports.
• POSIX.1-2024/IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 — The operating system API of the Unix-compatible systems.
• The Unicode Standard — The universal encoding standard for written characters.

Might be also useful

• C++17 in Tony Tables — New features in C++17 with examples.

See also

• List of Non-ANSI/ISO C++ libraries

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