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The All-in-One Guide to C++20

The Standard Library

Get a brief overview of what the standard library of C++20 has to offer.

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std::span

A std::span represents an object that can refer to a contiguous sequence of objects. A std::span, sometimes also called a view, is never an owner. This view can be a C-array, a std::array, a pointer with a size, or a std::vector. A typical implementation of a std::span needs a pointer to its first element and a size.

The main reason for having a std::span is that a plain array will decay to a pointer if passed to a function; therefore, its size is lost. std::span automatically finds the size of an array, a std::array, or a std::vector. If you use a pointer to initialize a std::span, you have to provide the size in the constructor.

C++ 17
void copy_n(const int* src, int* des, int n){}
void copy(std::span<const int> src, std::span<int> des){} 
int main(){
    int arr1[] = {1, 2, 3}; 
    int arr2[] = {3, 4, 5};
  
    copy_n(arr1, arr2, 3);
    copy(arr1, arr2);
}

Container improvements

C++20 has many improvements regarding containers of the Standard Template Library. First of all, std::vector and ...