2.2 C++ language

GCC supports the original ISO C++ standard (1998) and contains experimental support for the second ISO C++ standard (2011).

The original ISO C++ standard was published as the ISO standard (ISO/IEC 14882:1998) and amended by a Technical Corrigenda published in 2003 (ISO/IEC 14882:2003). These standards are referred to as C++98 and C++03, respectively. GCC implements the majority of C++98 (export is a notable exception) and most of the changes in C++03. To select this standard in GCC, use one of the options ‘-ansi’, ‘-std=c++98’, or ‘-std=c++03’; to obtain all the diagnostics required by the standard, you should also specify ‘-pedantic’ (or ‘-pedantic-errors’ if you want them to be errors rather than warnings).

A revised ISO C++ standard was published in 2011 as ISO/IEC 14882:2011, and is referred to as C++11; before its publication it was commonly referred to as C++0x. C++11 contains several changes to the C++ language, most of which have been implemented in an experimental C++11 mode in GCC. For information regarding the C++11 features available in the experimental C++11 mode, see http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html. To select this standard in GCC, use the option ‘-std=c++11’; to obtain all the diagnostics required by the standard, you should also specify ‘-pedantic’ (or ‘-pedantic-errors’ if you want them to be errors rather than warnings).

More information about the C++ standards is available on the ISO C++ committee’s web site at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/.

By default, GCC provides some extensions to the C++ language; See section Options Controlling C++ Dialect. Use of the ‘-std’ option listed above will disable these extensions. You may also select an extended version of the C++ language explicitly with ‘-std=gnu++98’ (for C++98 with GNU extensions) or ‘-std=gnu++11’ (for C++11 with GNU extensions). The default, if no C++ language dialect options are given, is ‘-std=gnu++98’.

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