All of these documents (in fact, this entire homepage set) are bundled with the library source, under the docs subdirectory, for releases and snapshots.

Introductory notes for libstdc++

This is a short list of text files pertaining to this implementation of ISO 14882. A brief description follows the name of the file.

• BADNAMES - names to avoid because of potential collisions
• BUGS
• C++STYLE - coding style by example
• CHECKLIST - a list of required features and their status.
• COPYING - GPL v2 license terms
• DESIGN - overview of the implementation plan
• HEADER_POLICY - header naming and sub-include structure
• PROBLEMS
• README - directory structure
• RELEASE-NOTES - instructions for building, using
• TODO - tasks and known bugs
• organization
• Contributor checklist
• Copyright assignment form for libstdc++-v3

Configuring, Building, Installing

• Configure options
• Getting started: configure, build, install
  

Chapter-Specific Information, Extensions, Notes and Advice

1. Chapter 17 (Intro)
2. Chapter 18 (Library Support)
3. Chapter 19 (Diagnostics)
4. Chapter 20 (Utilities)
5. Chapter 21 (Strings)
6. Chapter 22 (Localization)
7. Chapter 23 (Containers)
8. Chapter 24 (Iterators)
9. Chapter 25 (Algorithms)
10. Chapter 26 (Numerics)
11. Chapter 27 (I/O)
12. Extensions to the Standard Library