C++ named requirements: PODType

 

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C++ named requirements

Basic
DefaultConstructible CopyAssignable CopyConstructible	MoveAssignable (C++11) MoveConstructible (C++11) Destructible
Type properties
ScalarType TriviallyCopyable (C++11) StandardLayoutType (C++11)	PODType TrivialType (C++11) ImplicitLifetimeType (C++20)
Library-Wide
EqualityComparable LessThanComparable Swappable (C++11) ValueSwappable (C++11) NullablePointer (C++11) Hash (C++11)	Allocator FunctionObject Callable Predicate BinaryPredicate Compare
Container
Container SequenceContainer ContiguousContainer (C++17) ReversibleContainer	AssociativeContainer AllocatorAwareContainer UnorderedAssociativeContainer (C++11)
Container Elements
DefaultInsertable (C++11) CopyInsertable (C++11) MoveInsertable (C++11)	EmplaceConstructible (C++11) Erasable (C++11)
Iterator
LegacyIterator LegacyOutputIterator LegacyInputIterator LegacyForwardIterator	LegacyBidirectionalIterator LegacyRandomAccessIterator LegacyContiguousIterator (C++17) ConstexprIterator (C++20)
Stream I/O
FormattedInputFunction UnformattedInputFunction	FormattedOutputFunction UnformattedOutputFunction
Formatting
BasicFormatter (C++20)	Formatter (C++20)
Random Numbers
SeedSequence (C++11) RandomNumberEngine (C++11)	RandomNumberDistribution (C++11) UniformRandomBitGenerator (C++11) RandomNumberEngineAdaptor (C++11)
Concurrency
BasicLockable (C++11) Lockable (C++11) TimedLockable (C++11) SharedLockable (C++14) SharedTimedLockable (C++14)	Mutex (C++11) TimedMutex (C++11) SharedMutex (C++17) SharedTimedMutex (C++14)
Other
CharTraits RegexTraits (C++11) BitmaskType NumericType LiteralType (C++11)	UnaryTypeTrait (C++11) BinaryTypeTrait (C++11) TransformationTrait (C++11) Clock (C++11) TrivialClock (C++11)

 

Specifies that the type is POD (Plain Old Data) type. This means the type is compatible with the types used in the C programming language, that is, can be exchanged with C libraries directly, in its binary form.

Note: the standard doesn't define a named requirement with this name. This is a type category defined by the core language. It is included here as a named requirement only for consistency.

This type requirement is deprecated in the C++ standard. All of its uses have been replaced by the more refined type requirements, such as TrivialType

(since C++20)

Requirements

The following types are collectively called POD types:

• scalar types
• POD classes
• arrays of such types
• cv-qualified versions of these types

See also

is_pod (C++11)(deprecated in C++20)

checks if a type is a plain-old data (POD) type (class template)