C++20 - The Complete Guide
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C++20 - The Complete Guide

About the Book

C++20 is the next evolution in modern C++ programming, which will be supported step-by-step by the latest version of gcc, clang, and Visual C++.

C++20 is a big step, maybe even larger than C++11.

It contains a couple of new key features (modules, concepts, ranges, corountines) plus several small but valuable language and library features, which will change the way we program in C++. As usual, not everything is self-explanatory, combining new features gives even more power, and there are hidden traps.

This book presents all the new language and library features of C++20. It covers the motivation and context of each new feature with examples and background information. The focus is on how these features impact day-to-day programming, what it means to combine them, and how to benefit from C++20 in practice.

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Nicolai M. Josuttis
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Table of Contents

  • Preface
    • An Experiment
    • Acknowledgments
    • Versions of This Book
  • About This Book
    • What You Should Know Before Reading This Book
    • Overall Structure of the Book
    • How to Read This Book
    • The Way I Implement
      • Initializations
      • Error Terminology
      • Code Simplifications
    • The C++ Standards
    • Example Code and Additional Information
    • Feedback
  • 1. Comparisons and Operator <=>
    • 1.1 Motivation for Operator<=>
      • 1.1.1 Defining Comparison Operators Before C++20
      • 1.1.2 Defining Comparison Operators Since C++20
    • 1.2 Defining and Using Comparisons
      • 1.2.1 Using Operator<=>
      • 1.2.2 Using Comparison Categories with operator<=>
      • 1.2.3 Calling Operator <=> Directly
      • 1.2.4 Dealing with Multiple Ordering Criteria
    • 1.3 Defining operator<=> and operator==
      • 1.3.1 Defaulted operator== and operator<=>
      • 1.3.2 Defaulted operator<=> Implies Defaulted operator==
      • 1.3.3 Implementation of the Defaulted operator<=>
    • 1.4 Overload Resolution with Rewritten Expressions
    • 1.5 Using Operator <=> in Generic Code
      • 1.5.1 Algorithm lexicographical_compare_three_way()
    • 1.6 Compatibility Issues with the Comparison Operators
      • 1.6.1 Delegating Free-Standing Comparison Operators
      • 1.6.2 Inheritance with Protected Members
    • 1.7 Afternotes
  • 2. Placeholder Types for Function Parameters
    • 2.1 auto for Parameters of Ordinary Functions
      • 2.1.1 auto for Parameters of Member Functions
    • 2.2 Using auto for Parameters in Practice
      • 2.2.1 Deferred Type Checks with auto
    • 2.3 auto for Parameters in Detail
      • 2.3.1 Basic Constraints for auto Parameters
      • 2.3.2 Combining Template and auto Parameters
    • 2.4 Afternotes
  • 3. Concepts, Requirements, and Constraints
    • 3.1 Motivating Example of Concepts and Requirements
      • 3.1.1 Improving the Template Step by Step
      • 3.1.2 A Complete Example with Concepts
      • 3.1.3 Constraining Alias Templates
      • 3.1.4 Constraining Variable Templates
      • 3.1.5 Constraining Member Functions
    • 3.2 Typical Applications of Concepts and Constraints in Practice
      • 3.2.1 Using Concepts to Understand Code and Error Messages
      • 3.2.2 Using Concepts to Disable Generic Code
      • 3.2.3 Using Requirements to Call Different Functions
      • 3.2.4 The Example as a Whole
      • 3.2.5 Former Workarounds
    • 3.3 Semantic Constraints
      • 3.3.1 Examples of Semantic Constraints
    • 3.4 Design Guidelines for Concepts
      • 3.4.1 Concepts Should Group Requirements
      • 3.4.2 Define Concepts with Care
    • 3.5 Afternotes
  • 4. Concepts, Requirements, and Constraints in Detail
    • 4.1 requires Clauses
      • 4.1.1 Using && and || in requires Clauses
    • 4.2 Ad-hoc Boolean Expressions
    • 4.3 requires Expressions
      • 4.3.1 Simple Requirements
      • 4.3.2 Type Requirements
      • 4.3.3 Compound Requirements
    • 4.4 Concepts in Detail
      • 4.4.1 Special Abilities of Concepts
      • 4.4.2 Concepts for Non-Type Template Parameters
    • 4.5 Subsuming Constraints with Concepts
      • 4.5.1 Indirect Subsumptions
      • 4.5.2 Defining Commutative Concepts
  • 5. Standard Concepts in Detail
    • 5.1 Overview of All Standard Concepts
      • 5.1.1 Header Files and Namespaces
      • 5.1.2 Standard Concepts Subsume
    • 5.2 Language-Related Concepts
      • 5.2.1 Arithmetic Concepts
      • 5.2.2 Object Concepts
      • 5.2.3 Concepts for Relationships between Types
      • 5.2.4 Comparison Concepts
    • 5.3 Concepts for Iterators and Ranges
      • 5.3.1 Concepts for Pointer-Like Objects
      • 5.3.2 Concepts for Iterators
      • 5.3.3 Iterator Concepts for Algorithms
    • 5.4 Concepts for Callables
      • 5.4.1 Basic Concepts for Callables
      • 5.4.2 Concepts for Callables Used by Iterators
    • 5.5 Auxiliary Concepts
      • 5.5.1 Concepts for Specific Type Attributes
      • 5.5.2 Concepts for Incrementable Types
  • 6. Ranges and Views
    •  
      • 6.0.1 Constraints and Utilities for Ranges
      • 6.0.2 Range Definitions with Sentinels and Counts
      • 6.0.3 Projections
      • 6.0.4 Utilities for Implementing Code for Ranges
      • 6.0.5 Limitations and Drawbacks of Ranges
    • 6.1 Borrowed Iterators and Ranges
      • 6.1.1 Borrowed Ranges
    • 6.2 Using Views
      • 6.2.1 Views on Ranges
    • 6.3 Views on Ranges That Are Destroyed or Modified
      • 6.3.1 Views with Write Access
      • 6.3.2 Views on Ranges That Change
      • 6.3.3 Copying Views Might Change Behavior
    • 6.4 Views and const
    • 6.5 Summary of All Container Idioms Broken By Views
    • 6.6 Afternotes
  • 7. Utilities for Ranges and Views
    • 7.1 Key Utilities for Using Ranges as Views
      • 7.1.1 std::views::all()
      • 7.1.2 std::views::counted()
    • 7.2 New Iterator and Sentinel Types
      • 7.2.1 std::counted_iterator
      • 7.2.2 std::common_iterator
      • 7.2.3 std::default_sentinel
      • 7.2.4 std::unreachable_sentinel
    • 7.3 New Functions for Dealing with Ranges
      • 7.3.1 Functions for Dealing with the Elements of Ranges (and Arrays)
      • 7.3.2 Functions for Dealing with Iterators
      • 7.3.3 Functions for Swapping and Moving Elements/Values
      • 7.3.4 Functions for Comparisons of Values
    • 7.4 New Type Functions/Utilities for Dealing with Ranges
      • 7.4.1 Generic Types of Ranges
      • 7.4.2 New Functional Types
      • 7.4.3 Other New Types for Dealing with Iterators
    • 7.5 Range Algorithms
      • 7.5.1 Algorithm Overview
  • 8. View Types in Detail
    • 8.1 Overview of All Views
      • 8.1.1 Overview of Wrapping and Generating Views
      • 8.1.2 Overview of Adapting Views
    • 8.2 Base Class and Namespace of Views
      • 8.2.1 Why Range Adaptors/Factories Have Their Own Namespace
    • 8.3 Source Views to External Elements
      • 8.3.1 Ref View
      • 8.3.2 Owning View
      • 8.3.3 Common View
    • 8.4 Generating Views
      • 8.4.1 Single View
      • 8.4.2 Empty View
      • 8.4.3 IStream View
      • 8.4.4 String View
      • 8.4.5 Span
    • 8.5 Filtering Views
      • 8.5.1 Take-While View
      • 8.5.2 Drop View
      • 8.5.3 Drop-While View
      • 8.5.4 Filter View
    • 8.6 Transforming Views
      • 8.6.1 Elements View
      • 8.6.2 Keys and Values View
    • 8.7 Mutating Views
    • 8.8 Views for Multiple Ranges
      • 8.8.1 Join View
  • 9. Spans
    • 9.1 Using Spans
      • 9.1.1 Example Using a Span with a Dynamic Extent
      • 9.1.2 Example Using a Span with Non-const Elements
      • 9.1.3 Example Using a Span with Fixed Extent
      • 9.1.4 Fixed vs. Dynamic Extent
    • 9.2 Spans Considered Harmful
    • 9.3 Design Aspects of Spans
      • 9.3.1 Lifetime Dependencies of Spans
      • 9.3.2 Performance of Spans
      • 9.3.3 const Correctness of Spans
      • 9.3.4 Using Spans as Parameters in Generic Code
    • 9.4 Span Operations
      • 9.4.1 Span Operations and Member Types Overview
      • 9.4.2 Constructors
      • 9.4.3 Operations for Sub-Spans
    • 9.5 Afternotes
  • 10. Formatted Output
    • 10.1 Formatted Output by Example
      • 10.1.1 Using std::format()
      • 10.1.2 Using std::format_to_n()
      • 10.1.3 Using std::format_to()
      • 10.1.4 Using std::formatted_size()
    • 10.2 Performance of the Formatting Library
      • 10.2.1 Using std::vformat() and vformat_to()
    • 10.3 Formatted Output in Detail
      • 10.3.1 General Format of Format Strings
      • 10.3.2 Standard Format Specifiers
      • 10.3.3 Width, Precision, and Fill Characters
    • 10.4 Internationalization
    • 10.5 Error Handling
    • 10.6 User-Defined Formatted Output
      • 10.6.1 Basic Formatter API
      • 10.6.2 Improved Parsing
      • 10.6.3 Using Standard Formatters for User-Defined Formatters
      • 10.6.4 Using Standard Formatters for Strings
    • 10.7 Afternotes
  • 11. Dates and Timezones for <chrono>
    • 11.1 Overview by Example
      • 11.1.1 Scheduling a Meeting on the 5th of Every Month
      • 11.1.2 Scheduling a Meeting on the Last Day of Every Month
      • 11.1.3 Scheduling a Meeting Every First Monday
      • 11.1.4 Using Different Timezones
    • 11.2 Basic Chrono Concepts and Terminology
    • 11.3 Basic Chrono Extensions with C++20
      • 11.3.1 Duration Types
      • 11.3.2 Timepoint Types
      • 11.3.3 Time Type hh_mm_ss
      • 11.3.4 Hours Utilities
    • 11.4 I/O with Chrono Types
      • 11.4.1 Formatted Input
    • 11.5 Using the Chrono Extensions in Practice
      • 11.5.1 Dealing with months and years
      • 11.5.2 Parsing Timepoints and Durations
    • 11.6 Timezones
      • 11.6.1 Characteristics of Timezones
      • 11.6.2 The IANA Timezone Database
      • 11.6.3 Using Timezones
      • 11.6.4 Custom Timezones
    • 11.7 Clocks in Detail
      • 11.7.1 The Pseudo Clock local_t
      • 11.7.2 Dealing with Leap Seconds
      • 11.7.3 Conversions between Clocks
    • 11.8 Other New Chrono Features
    • 11.9 Afternotes
  • 12. std::jthread and Stop Tokens
    • 12.1 Motivation for std::jthread
      • 12.1.1 The Problem of std::thread
      • 12.1.2 Using std::jthread
      • 12.1.3 Stop Sources and Stop Tokens in Detail
      • 12.1.4 Using Stop Callbacks
      • 12.1.5 Constraints and Guarantees of Stop Tokens
    • 12.2 std::jthread in Detail
      • 12.2.1 Using Stop Tokens with std::jthread
    • 12.3 Afternotes
  • 13. Concurrency Features
    • 13.1 Thread Synchronization with Latches and Barriers
      • 13.1.1 Latches
      • 13.1.2 Barriers
    • 13.2 Semaphores
      • 13.2.1 Example of Using Counting Semaphores
    • 13.3 Extensions for Atomic Types
      • 13.3.1 Atomic Shared Pointers
      • 13.3.2 Atomic Floating-Point Types
      • 13.3.3 Thread Synchronization with Atomic Types
      • 13.3.4 Extensions for std::atomic_flag
    • 13.4 Synchronized Output Streams
      • 13.4.1 Motivation for Synchronized Output Streams
      • 13.4.2 Using Synchronized Output Streams
      • 13.4.3 Using Synchronized Output Streams for Files
      • 13.4.4 Using Synchronized Output Streams as Output Streams
      • 13.4.5 Synchronized Output Streams in Practice
    • 13.5 Afternotes
  • 14. Coroutines
    • 14.1 What Are Coroutines?
    • 14.2 A First Coroutine Example
      • 14.2.1 Using the Coroutine
      • 14.2.2 Coroutines Calling Coroutines
      • 14.2.3 Bootstrapping Interface, Handle, and Promise
      • 14.2.4 Memory Management
    • 14.3 Coroutines That Yield or Return Values
      • 14.3.1 Using co_yield
    • 14.4 Coroutine Awaitables and Awaiters
      • 14.4.1 Passing Values From Suspension Back to the Coroutine
    • 14.5 Afternotes
  • 15. Coroutines in Detail
    • 15.1 Coroutine Constraints
    • 15.2 The Coroutine Frame and the Promises
      • 15.2.1 How Coroutine Interfaces, Promises, and Awaitables Interact
    • 15.3 Coroutine Promises in Detail
      • 15.3.1 Mandatory Promise Operations
      • 15.3.2 Promise Operations to Return or Yield Values
      • 15.3.3 Optional Promise Operations
    • 15.4 Coroutine Handles in Detail
      • 15.4.1 std::coroutine_handle<void>
    • 15.5 Exceptions in Coroutines
    • 15.6 Allocating Memory for the Coroutine Frame
      • 15.6.1 How Coroutines Allocate Memory
      • 15.6.2 Avoiding Heap Memory Allocation
      • 15.6.3 get_return_object_on_allocation_failure()
    • 15.7 co_await and Awaiters in Detail
      • 15.7.1 Details of the Awaiter Interface
      • 15.7.2 Letting co_await Update Running Coroutines
    • 15.8 Other Ways of Dealing with co_await
    • 15.9 Concurrent Use of Coroutines
      • 15.9.1 A Thread Pool for Coroutine Tasks
      • 15.9.2 What C++ Libraries Will Provide After C++20
  • 16. Modules
    • 16.1 Motivation for Modules Using a First Example
      • 16.1.1 Compiling Module Units
      • 16.1.2 Importing and Using a Module
    • 16.2 Modules with Multiple Files
      • 16.2.1 Module Units
      • 16.2.2 Interface Partitions
      • 16.2.3 Summary of Splitting Modules into Different Files
    • 16.3 Dealing with Modules in Practice
      • 16.3.1 Dealing with Header Files
    • 16.4 Modules in Detail
      • 16.4.1 Module Declaration and Export in Detail
      • 16.4.2 Umbrella Modules
      • 16.4.3 Module Import in Detail
    • 16.5 Afternotes
  • 17. Lambda Extensions
    •  
      • 17.0.1 Using Template Parameters for Generic Lambdas in Practice
      • 17.0.2 Explicit Specification of Lambda Template Parameters
    • 17.1 Calling the Default Constructor of Lambdas
    • 17.2 Lambdas as Non-Type Template Parameters
    • 17.3 consteval Lambdas
    • 17.4 Changes for Capturing
      • 17.4.1 Capturing Structured Bindings
      • 17.4.2 Capturing Parameter Packs of Variadic Templates
      • 17.4.3 Lambdas as Coroutines
    • 17.5 Afternotes
  • 18. Compile-Time Computing
    •  
      • 18.0.1 Using constinit in Practice
      • 18.0.2 How constinit Solves the Static Initialization Order Fiasco
    • 18.1 Keyword consteval
      • 18.1.1 A First consteval Example
      • 18.1.2 constexpr versus consteval
      • 18.1.3 Using consteval in Practice
      • 18.1.4 Compile-Time Value versus Compile-Time Context
      • 18.1.5 std::is_constant_evaluated() in Detail
    • 18.2 Using Heap Memory, Vectors, and Strings at Compile Time
      • 18.2.1 Using Vectors at Compile Time
      • 18.2.2 Returning a Collection at Compile Time
      • 18.2.3 Using Strings at Compile Time
    • 18.3 Other constexpr Extensions
      • 18.3.1 constexpr Language Extensions
      • 18.3.2 constexpr Library Extensions
    • 18.4 Afternotes
  • 19. Non-Type Template Parameter (NTTP) Extensions
    •  
      • 19.0.1 Floating-Point Values as Non-Type Template Parameters
      • 19.0.2 Lambdas as Non-Type Template Parameters
    • 19.1 Afternotes
  • 20. New Type Traits
    • 20.1 New Type Traits for Type Classification
      • 20.1.1 is_bounded_array_v<> and is_unbounded_array_v
    • 20.2 New Type Traits for Type Inspection
    • 20.3 New Type Traits for Type Conversion
      • 20.3.1 unwrap_reference<> and unwrap_ref_decay_t
      • 20.3.2 common_reference<>_t
      • 20.3.3 type_identity_t<>
    • 20.4 New Type Traits for Iterators
      • 20.4.1 iter_value_t<>
      • 20.4.2 iter_reference_t<> and iter_rvalue_reference_t<>
    • 20.5 Type Traits and Functions for Layout Compatibility
      • 20.5.1 is_layout_compatible_v<>
      • 20.5.2 is_pointer_interconvertible_base_of_v<>
      • 20.5.3 is_corresponding_member()
      • 20.5.4 is_pointer_interconvertible_with_class()
    • 20.6 Afternotes
  • 21. Small Improvements for the Core Language
    • 21.1 using for Enumeration Values
    • 21.2 Delegating Enumeration Types to Different Scopes
    • 21.3 New Character Type char8_t
      • 21.3.1 Changes in the C++ Standard Library for char8_t
    • 21.4 Improvements for Aggregates
      • 21.4.1 Designated Initializers
      • 21.4.2 Aggregate Initialization with Parentheses
    • 21.5 New Attributes and Attribute Features
      • 21.5.1 Attributes [[likely]] and [[unlikely]]
      • 21.5.2 Attribute [[nodiscard]] with Parameter
    • 21.6 Feature Test Macros
    • 21.7 Afternotes
  • 22. Small Improvements for Generic Programming
    •  
      • 22.0.1 Rules for Implicit typename in Detail
    • 22.1 Improvements for Aggregates in Generic Code
      • 22.1.1 Class Template Argument Deduction (CTAD) for Aggregates
    • 22.2 Conditional explicit
    • 22.3 Afternotes
  • 23. Small Improvements for the C++ Standard Library
    • 23.1 Updates for String Types
      • 23.1.1 String Members starts_with() and ends_with()
      • 23.1.2 Restricted String Member reserve()
    • 23.2 std::source_location
    • 23.3 Safe Comparisons of Integral Values and Sizes
      • 23.3.1 Safe Comparisons of Integral Values
    • 23.4 Utilities for Dealing with Bits
      • 23.4.1 Bit Operations
      • 23.4.2 std::bit_cast<>()
      • 23.4.3 std::endian
    • 23.5 <version>
    • 23.6 Extensions for Algorithms
      • 23.6.1 Range Support
      • 23.6.2 New Algorithms
    • 23.7 Afternotes
  • 24. Deprecated and Removed Features
    • 24.1 Deprecated and Removed Core Language Features
    • 24.2 Deprecated and Removed Library Features
      • 24.2.1 Removed Library Features
    • 24.3 Afternotes
  • Glossary
    • A
      • aggregate
      • argument-dependent lookup (ADL)
    • C
      • class template argument deduction (CTAD)
    • F
      • forwarding reference
      • full specialization
      • function object (functor)
    • G
      • glvalue
    • I
      • incomplete type
    • L
      • lvalue
    • P
      • partial specialization
      • predicate
      • prvalue
    • R
      • resource acquisition is initialization (RAII)
      • regular type
      • rvalue
    • S
      • semiregular type
      • substitution failure is not an error (SFINAE)
      • small string optimization (SSO)
      • stateless
      • standard template library (STL)
    • U
      • universal reference
    • V
      • value category
      • variable template
      • variadic template
    • X
      • xvalue
  • Notes

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