Implementation-defined behavior

Contains the implementation details of the implementation-defined behavior in libc++. Implementation-defined is mandated to be documented by the Standard.

Implementation-defined behavior

Updating the Time Zone Database

The Standard allows implementations to automatically update the remote time zone database. Libc++ opts not to do that. Instead calling

• std::chrono::remote_version() will update the version information of the remote time zone database,

• std::chrono::reload_tzdb(), if needed, will update the entire remote time zone database.

This offers a way for users to update the remote time zone database and give them full control over the process.

[ostream.formatted.print]/3 A terminal capable of displaying Unicode

The Standard specifies that the manner in which a stream is determined to refer to a terminal capable of displaying Unicode is implementation-defined. This is used for std::print and similar functions taking an ostream& argument.

Libc++ determines that a stream is Unicode-capable terminal by:

• First it determines whether the stream’s rdbuf() has an underlying FILE*. This is true in the following cases:

  • The stream is std::cout, std::cerr, or std::clog.

  • A std::basic_filebuf<CharT, Traits> derived from std::filebuf.

• The way to determine whether this FILE* refers to a terminal capable of displaying Unicode is the same as specified for void vprint_unicode(FILE* stream, string_view fmt, format_args args);. This function is used for other std::print overloads that don’t take an ostream& argument.

Listed in the index of implementation-defined behavior

The order of the entries matches the entries in the draft of the Standard.