Standard library header <cstddef>

 

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Technical Specifications

 

Standard Library headers

Language Support
<cstddef> <cstdlib> <version> <limits> <climits>	<cfloat> <cstdint> <new> <typeinfo>	<source_location> <exception> <initializer_list>     <compare>	<coroutine> <csignal> <csetjmp> <cstdarg>
Concepts
<concepts>
Diagnostics
<stdexcept>	<cassert>	<cerrno>	<system_error>
General utilities
<utility> <memory> <memory_resource> <scoped_allocator>	<bitset> <tuple> <optional> <any>	<variant> <type_traits> <ratio> <chrono>	<typeindex> <functional> <stacktrace> <ctime>
Strings
<string> <string_view> <cstring>	<charconv> <format>	<cctype> <cwctype>	<cwchar> <cuchar>
Localization
<locale>	<codecvt>	<clocale>
Containers
<span> <array> <vector>	<deque> <forward_list> <list>	<map> <set> <queue>	<unordered_map> <unordered_set> <stack>
Iterators
<iterator>
Ranges
<ranges>
Algorithms
<algorithm>	<execution>
Numerics
<complex> <random>	<valarray> <numeric>	<bit> <numbers>	<cfenv> <cmath>
Input/Output
<iosfwd> <ios> <iomanip> <streambuf>	<istream> <ostream> <iostream>	<sstream> <fstream> <syncstream>	<cstdio> <cinttypes> <strstream>
Regular expressions
<regex>
Filesystem support
<filesystem>
Thread support
<thread> <atomic> <mutex>	<shared_mutex> <condition_variable>     <future>	<stop_token> <semaphore>	<latch> <barrier>
C compatibility
<ciso646> <cstdalign>	<cstdbool> <ccomplex>	<ctgmath> <stdatomic.h>

 

This header was originally in the C standard library as <stddef.h>.

This header is part of the utility library.

Macros
NULL	implementation-defined null pointer constant (macro constant)
offsetof	byte offset from the beginning of a standard-layout type to specified member (function macro)
Types
size_t	unsigned integer type returned by the sizeof operator (typedef)
ptrdiff_t	signed integer type returned when subtracting two pointers (typedef)
nullptr_t (C++11)	the type of the null pointer literal nullptr (typedef)
max_align_t (C++11)	trivial type with alignment requirement as great as any other scalar type (typedef)
byte (C++17)	the byte type (enum)

Synopsis

namespace std {
  using ptrdiff_­t = /* see description */;
  using size_­t = /* see description */;
  using max_­align_­t = /* see description */;
  using nullptr_­t = decltype(nullptr);
 
  enum class byte : unsigned char {};
 
  // byte type operations
  template<class IntType>
    constexpr byte& operator<<=(byte& b, IntType shift) noexcept;
  template<class IntType>
    constexpr byte operator<<(byte b, IntType shift) noexcept;
  template<class IntType>
    constexpr byte& operator>>=(byte& b, IntType shift) noexcept;
  template<class IntType>
    constexpr byte operator>>(byte b, IntType shift) noexcept;
  constexpr byte& operator|=(byte& l, byte r) noexcept;
  constexpr byte operator|(byte l, byte r) noexcept;
  constexpr byte& operator&=(byte& l, byte r) noexcept;
  constexpr byte operator&(byte l, byte r) noexcept;
  constexpr byte& operator^=(byte& l, byte r) noexcept;
  constexpr byte operator^(byte l, byte r) noexcept;
  constexpr byte operator~(byte b) noexcept;
  template<class IntType>
    constexpr IntType to_integer(byte b) noexcept;
}
 
#define NULL /* see description */
#define offsetof(P, D) /* see description */

Notes

• NULL is also defined in the following headers:
  • <clocale>
  • <ctime>
  • <cstring>
  • <cstdio>
  • <cstdlib>
  • <cwchar>
• std::size_t is also defined in the following headers:
  • <ctime>
  • <cstring>
  • <cstdio>
  • <cwchar>
  • <cuchar> (since C++17)