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Introduction

What is the standard C++ library?

• The C++ standard library meets the most common needs of C++ programming.
• It is part of the ISO standardisation of C++ (portability).
• It is a superset of the ISO C standard library (header files cmath, ctime, etc).
• It is strongly inspired from the Standard Template Library (STL), a set of templates implementing generic data structures and algorithms.
• The std namespace is reserved for it.
• Site cppreference.com is the up-to-date reference site for documentation.
• Each major compiler provides its own implementation of the standard library
  • The GNU compiler g++ (Unix, etc) uses the GNU C++ library libstdc++
  • The clang compiler clang++ (MACOS, etc) uses the C++ library libc++
  • The MSVC compiler VisualC++ (MS Windows, etc) uses the C++ STL library MSVC STL
• Features supported by each implementation are detailed in this page of cppreference.com

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