Windows 10: Announcing: MSVC Conforms to the C++ Standard

Brink · May 7, 2018

Achieving conformance with the C++ Standards has been a long road for the Visual C++ team. If you’ve seen us at any conferences lately, you’ve probably seen the MSVC Conformance slide. (You can grab a copy of the slide or watch the 2017 CppCon talk here.) Finishing the features on this slide – which includes features from C++11, C++14, and C++17 – has been one of our team’s main goals for the past few years.

We’re happy to announce that in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 we’ve implemented these features. (The Technical Specifications are work-in-progress as they make their ways into the Standard.)
The MSVC compiler toolset in Visual Studio version 15.7 conforms with the C++ Standard!
We’re not going to stop our conformance effort – there are always new features, defect reports, etc. There are places within these features where we have known bugs, but we believe that, at this point, there are no feature areas in the C++ standard that you should avoid with the MSVC compiler (except for the preprocessor as described below, and floating-point <charconv> which is not yet implemented). Expect to see more future communications from our team as we alleviate the remaining caveats. See the details below in the blog.

Getting to conformance

Our compiler has a long history: February marked the 25th anniversary of the Visual C++ product. The Microsoft C product on which Visual C++ was built is 35 years old. And through the entire history of compilers our first concern has been maintaining compatibility so that your code isn’t broken. We carefully document all changes made for conformance, making our fixes source-compatible when possible and providing workarounds when changes are needed in your code. Three years ago, we unveiled our compiler rewrite. We’ve been doing a major overhaul of the compiler in a process we’ve referred to as “Rejuvenation”. Both the old YACC parser and the “Rejuv” Recursive Descent parser run side-by-side in our compiler today. We’ve moved features individually from the old code to the “Rejuv” code as we’ve been able to implement them. This technique has enabled us to continually make progress while minimizing breaking changes. Rewriting features has occasionally caused some regressions, and we are truly sorry for any inconveniences. However, overall it’s been far easier to implement modern C++ features on a modern compiler than it was on our decades-old parser, where some features just could not be implemented altogether.

Standard Library Conformance

The MSVC implementation of the Standard Library has gained major new features recently: Parallel Algorithms, Filesystem, constexpr char_traits, Special Math, and support for class template argument deduction. A detailed table of our feature status is below in this post.

Compiler Conformance

With Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 we’re shipping a complete implementation of almost all features in the C++ Standard, including all versions up through C++17. The remaining features have been implemented (and will ship soon) or are being implemented today. This includes the completion of some of the more difficult features that we’ve been working on from C++11/14: two-phase name lookup, expression SFINAE, extended constexpr, and pack expansions. Every compiler has bugs—we reported some conformance bugs in other implementations while implementing old features with fresh eyes. We’ll continue to address our bugs and continue to implement new features as they are adopted in draft Standards.

Technical Specifications

MSVC also leads on many technical specifications. MSVC has the most complete implementation of the Extensions to C++ for Modules TS. We’ve got the oldest implementation of the C++ Extensions for Coroutines and have recently rewritten our optimizer for coroutines. Microsoft is shipping products that substantially use both Modules and Coroutines. We’ve been working on the C++ Extensions for Ranges TS, both to improve the TS and to bring MSVC to the point where we can support Ranges. And while most of the C++ Extensions for Concepts has been merged into the C++20 standard draft, we’re committed to implementing the feature early in our C++20 work.
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