What's the status of C++17 support in GCC?

Question

Clang has a nice page describing the project status w.r.t. C++1z/C++17 feature support (and C++11 and C++14, it's the same page).

g++ has a page regarding C++14 features, but I couldn't find anything about C++17/C++1z. Is that being worked on but just not present on the web? For version 5.0?

Answer 1

As of today, gcc's C++1z language support is tracked on: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx1z.html. For the C++1z status of libstdc++, see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#status.iso.201z.

Answer 2

There is some support already; The following two summaries are oriented on Clang's list:

Supported (as of July 5th, 2015):

• auto for function parameters is supported since 4.9. This feature is currently considered an extension but is included in the concepts proposal and called "generic functions".
• trigraphs are being ignored by default since 5.1.0
• typename for template template parameters since 5.1.0
• new deduction rules for direct-list-initialization since 5.1.0
• static_assert without a message in HEAD
• u8 character literals in HEAD
• Attributes for namespaces or enumerators in HEAD

Unsupported (as of July 5th, 2015; with links to a valid example usage):

• Fold expressions
• Nested namespace definitions
• Constant evaluation for all non-type template arguments

For the status of implementation of library proposals in libstdc++, the corresponding manual has a list.

Answer 3

Updated final nutshell answer:

• GCC 8.x (and later) fully supports all of C++17.
• GCC 7.x supports all of C++17 except for class template argument deduction.
• GCC 6.x (and earlier) little or no support for C++17 features.

Thanks @JanVanDijk for the link to the full feature table.

Answer 4

There is also a nice table at cppreference.com that lists supported features for several compilers.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support