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# General principles <a id="intro">[[intro]]</a>
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## Implementation compliance <a id="intro.compliance">[[intro.compliance]]</a>
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The set of *diagnosable rules* consists of all syntactic and semantic
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notation that “no diagnostic is required” or which are described as
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resulting in “undefined behavior”.
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Although this document states only requirements on C++ implementations,
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those requirements are often easier to understand if they are phrased as
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[*Note 1*: During template argument deduction and substitution, certain
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For classes and class templates, the library Clauses specify partial
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A conforming implementation may have extensions (including additional
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well-formed program. Implementations are required to diagnose programs
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that use such extensions that are ill-formed according to this document.
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Having done so, however, they can compile and execute such programs.
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Each implementation shall include documentation that identifies all
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### Abstract machine <a id="intro.abstract">[[intro.abstract]]</a>
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The semantic descriptions in this document define a parameterized
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These collectively are referred to as the *observable behavior* of the
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[*Note 2*: More stringent correspondences between abstract and actual
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## Structure of this document <a id="intro.structure">[[intro.structure]]</a>
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[[diff]] summarizes the evolution of C++ since its first published
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## Syntax notation <a id="syntax">[[syntax]]</a>
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## Acknowledgments <a id="intro.ack">[[intro.ack]]</a>
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# General principles <a id="intro">[[intro]]</a>
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The set of *diagnosable rules* consists of all syntactic and semantic
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[*Note 1*: During template argument deduction and substitution, certain
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Having done so, however, they can compile and execute such programs.
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Each implementation shall include documentation that identifies all
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### Abstract machine <a id="intro.abstract">[[intro.abstract]]</a>
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The semantic descriptions in this document define a parameterized
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Certain aspects and operations of the abstract machine are described in
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[^1]: POSIX is a registered trademark of the Institute of Electrical and
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Electronic Engineers, Inc. This information is given for the
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convenience of users of this document and does not constitute an
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endorsement by ISO or IEC of this product.
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and in [[diff.library]], the C standard library is a subset of the
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C++ standard library.
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the data being processed; see [[intro.defs]] and
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[[intro.execution]].
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see [[intro.abstract]].
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[^5]: This provision is sometimes called the “as-if” rule, because an
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implementation is free to disregard any requirement of this document
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as long as the result is *as if* the requirement had been obeyed, as
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far as can be determined from the observable behavior of the
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program. For instance, an actual implementation need not evaluate
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part of an expression if it can deduce that its value is not used
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and that no side effects affecting the observable behavior of the
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program are produced.
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[[intro.compliance.general]].
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