Clang - C++ and C++'11 Status

# C++ and C++'11 Support in Clang

Last updated: $Date: 2011-10-14 16:35:48 -0700 (Fri, 14 Oct 2011) $

Clang currently implements all of the ISO C++ 1998 standard (including the defects addressed in the ISO C++ 2003 standard) except for 'export' (which has been removed in C++'11) and is considered a production-quality C++ compiler. The LLVM bug tracker contains a Clang C++ component that tracks known Clang C++ bugs.

## C++11 Implementation status

Clang provides support for a number of features included in the new ISO C++ Standard, ISO/IEC 14882:2011. The following table describes which C++11 features have been implemented in Clang and in which Clang versions they became available.

You can use Clang in C++11 mode either with libc++ or with gcc's libstdc++. libstdc++-4.4 requires a patch to work with clang; other versions have not been tested.

Language Feature | C++0x Proposal | Available in Clang?
--- | --- | ---
Rvalue references | N2118 | Clang 2.9
Rvalue references for `*this` | N2439 | Clang 2.9
Initialization of class objects by rvalues | N1610 | Clang 2.9
Non-static data member initializers | N2756 | Clang 3.0
Variadic templates | N2242 | Clang 2.9
Extending variadic template template parameters | N2555 | Clang 2.9
Initializer lists | N2672 | No
Static assertions | N1720 | Clang 2.9
`auto`-typed variables | N1984 | Clang 2.9
Multi-declarator `auto` | N1737 | Clang 2.9
Removal of auto as a storage-class specifier | N2546 | Clang 2.9
New function declarator syntax | N2541 | Clang 2.9
New wording for C++0x lambdas | N2927 | No
Declared type of an expression | N2343 | Clang 2.9
Right angle brackets | N1757 | Clang 2.9
Default template arguments for function templates | DR226 | Clang 2.9
Solving the SFINAE problem for expressions | DR339 | Clang 2.9
Alias templates | N2258 | Clang 3.0
Extern templates | N1987 | Clang 2.9
Null pointer constant | N2431 | Clang 3.0
Strongly-typed enums | N2347 | Clang 2.9
Forward declarations for enums | N2764 | No
Generalized attributes | N2761 | No
Generalized constant expressions | N2235 | No
Alignment support | N2341 | Clang 3.0
Delegating constructors | N1986 | Clang 3.0
Inheriting constructors | N2540 | No
Explicit conversion operators | N2437 | Clang 3.0
New character types | N2249 | Clang 2.9
Unicode string literals | N2442 | Clang 3.0
Raw string literals | N2442 | Clang 3.0
Universal character name literals | N2170 | No
User-defined literals | N2765 | No
Standard Layout Types | N2342 | Clang 3.0
Defaulted and deleted functions | N2346 | Clang 2.9
Extended friend declarations | N1791 | Clang 2.9
Extending `sizeof` | N2253 | No
Inline namespaces | N2535 | Clang 2.9
Unrestricted unions | N2544 | No
Local and unnamed types as template arguments | N2657 | Clang 2.9
Range-based for | N2930 | Clang 3.0
Explicit virtual overrides | N2928 N3206 N3272 | Clang 3.0
Minimal support for garbage collection and reachability-based leak detection | N2670 | No
Allowing move constructors to throw [noexcept] | N3050 | Clang 3.0
Defining move special member functions | N3053 | Clang 3.0
Concurrency
Sequence points | N2239 | No
Atomic operations | N2427 | No
Strong Compare and Exchange | N2748 | No
Bidirectional Fences | N2752 | No
Memory model | N2429 | No
Data-dependency ordering: atomics and memory model | N2664 | No
Propagating exceptions | N2179 | Clang 2.9
Abandoning a process and at_quick_exit | N2440 | No
Allow atomics use in signal handlers | N2547 | No
Thread-local storage | N2659 | No
Dynamic initialization and destruction with concurrency | N2660 | No
C99 Features in C++0x
`__func__` predefined identifier | N2340 | Clang 2.9
C99 preprocessor | N1653 | Clang 2.9
`long long` | N1811 | Clang 2.9
Extended integral types | N1988 | No