Annex C (informative) Compatibility [diff]

Change: New kinds of string-literals.

Rationale: Required for new features.

Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code may fail to compile or produce different results in this International Standard.

Specifically, macros named R, u8, u8R, u, uR, U, UR, or LR will not be expanded when adjacent to a string-literal but will be interpreted as part of the string-literal.

For example:

#define u8 "abc"
const char* s = u8"def";        // Previously "abcdef", now "def"

Change: User-defined literal string support.

Rationale: Required for new features.

Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code may fail to compile or produce different results in this International Standard.

For example:

#define _x "there"
"hello"_x           // #1

Previously, #1 would have consisted of two separate preprocessing tokens and the macro _­x would have been expanded.

In this International Standard, #1 consists of a single preprocessing token, so the macro is not expanded.

Change: New keywords.

Rationale: Required for new features.

Effect on original feature: Added to Table 5, the following identifiers are new keywords: alignas, alignof, char16_­t, char32_­t, constexpr, decltype, noexcept, nullptr, static_­assert, and thread_­local.

Valid C++ 2003 code using these identifiers is invalid in this International Standard.

Change: Type of integer literals.

Rationale: C99 compatibility.

Effect on original feature: Certain integer literals larger than can be represented by long could change from an unsigned integer type to signed long long.