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The C++ (draft) standards are open source: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft Last time I looked I could not find an equivalent repository for the C standards.

comment by RossBencina · 2025-11-01 · in Open-Source Ada: From Gateware to Application

…speaking, incorrect. https://isocpp.org/std/the-standard https://www.iso.org/standard/79358.html https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/blob/main/papers/n4951.md And quite frankly, what matters to devs is what tooling supports the…

comment by LordDragonfang · 2023-07-11 · in C++23: The Next C++ Standard

…[2] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/reinterpret_cast [3] https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/releases/tag/n4917 *This is a joke, but only barely so.

comment by agalunar · 2023-06-05 · in Never trust a programmer who says they know C++

…the first place and how they are implemented, but it's definitely not a guaranteed exception. [0]: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft [1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/links [2]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/llvmorg-15.0.7…

comment by aw1621107 · 2023-02-08 · in Can sanitizers find the two bugs I wrote in C++?

…costs roughly 130EUR to buy... [0]: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/standards [1]: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft

comment by roblabla · 2021-12-09 · in “Free PACER” bill advances through Senate judiciary unanimously

The latex sources of the C++ standard are on github https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/tree/c+%2B20 I assume that the C++20 branch actually contains the final version, but you'll have to generate the pdf yourself.

comment by gpderetta · 2021-06-07 · in Show HN: Embedded Ring Buffer C++98

Exactly, having https://github.com/cplusplus/draft is enough in most cases

comment by felixr · 2021-03-09 · in ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available

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story by nsajko · 2020-11-10 · 0 comments

…which argued that the standard should require calling std::terminate to avoid security issues. [0]: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft [1]: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n310...

comment by aw1621107 · 2020-03-04 · in Low-cost Deterministic C++ Exceptions for Embedded Systems (2019) [pdf]

I stand corrected, thank you. For posterity (I like to leave breadcrumbs for myself): https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/blob/dc2bff0/source/decla... https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/blob/dc2bff0/source/decla...…

comment by wahern · 2019-09-19 · in Modern C, Second Edition

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story by deepaksurti · 2019-07-04 · 0 comments

…compile the PDF that gets sent to ISO to put the official markings on yourself. Here is C++17: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/tree/c++17 . If you have a contractual obligation that requires to exactly use a specific version of C/C++,…

comment by jcranmer · 2019-05-22 · in Go is Google's language, not ours

…is very easy, get the latest ISO C++ draft, pay 198 CHF for the final version and do a PDF diff. https://github.com/cplusplus/draft https://www.iso.org/standard/68564.html See I am even saving you the trouble to search where to buy it.

comment by pjmlp · 2018-09-27 · in The future of Java and OpenJDK updates without Oracle support

…1st posts. With that, and nothing on the drafts [0], that I can see, I'm leaning towards joke. [0] https://github.com/cplusplus/draft

comment by shakna · 2018-04-01 · in Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

Well, you can see changes as recently as two days ago. https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/commit/83e302d3bb6a5f8855...

comment by mratzloff · 2017-12-05 · in C++17 Standard Published

Reading https://github.com/cplusplus/draft , it seems you had to generate figures from their dot source. If so, the result may depend on your installation (probably even if you use the same version of GraphViz but a different OS and/or set…

comment by Someone · 2017-12-05 · in C++17 Standard Published

Just go to https://github.com/cplusplus/draft for drafts. Choose a draft version that is produced right before the actual date of standardization and there are only very minor differences between the draft and the real deal.

comment by kccqzy · 2017-12-05 · in C++17 Standard Published

You can build the pdf yourself from the LaTeX source: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft Or get the latest public draft from https://wg21.link/standard Or an html version: http://eelis.net/c++draft/

comment by m-ou-se · 2017-12-05 · in C++17 Standard Published

You can probably build the drafts from the github repo: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/tree/c++17

comment by pavanky · 2017-12-05 · in C++17 Standard Published

C++: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft (maybe omitted because they were only listing reference implementations?)

comment by 0xcde4c3db · 2017-01-03 · in Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

Here's the GitHub link: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft

comment by agwa · 2014-09-17 · in The C++14 Standard: What You Need to Know

You can grab and compile the very latest draft from the committees Github page: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft The current version is a slender 1365 pages, including the standard library.

comment by nly · 2014-08-18 · in We have C++14

…2012 version. The link in _stephan's comment is the download page. There's also a Github repo: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft [1] http://isocpp.org/blog/2012/08/where-to-get-the-standard-and...

comment by davidcuddeback · 2012-11-02 · in The new website of the C++ standard

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