16 Library introduction [library]

16.4 Library-wide requirements [requirements]

16.4.5 Constraints on programs [constraints]

16.4.5.3 Reserved names [reserved.names]

16.4.5.3.1 General [reserved.names.general]

The C++ standard library reserves the following kinds of names:
If a program declares or defines a name in a context where it is reserved, other than as explicitly allowed by [library], its behavior is undefined.

16.4.5.3.2 Zombie names [zombie.names]

In namespace std, the following names are reserved for previous standardization:
The following names are reserved as members for previous standardization, and may not be used as a name for object-like macros in portable code:
The name stossc is reserved as a member function for previous standardization, and may not be used as a name for function-like macros in portable code.
The header names <ccomplex>, <ciso646>, <codecvt>, <cstdalign>, <cstdbool>, and <ctgmath> are reserved for previous standardization.

16.4.5.3.3 Macro names [macro.names]

A translation unit that includes a standard library header shall not #define or #undef names declared in any standard library header.
A translation unit shall not #define or #undef names lexically identical to keywords, to the identifiers listed in Table 4, or to the attribute-tokens described in [dcl.attr], except that the names likely and unlikely may be defined as function-like macros ([cpp.replace]).

16.4.5.3.4 External linkage [extern.names]

Each name declared as an object with external linkage in a header is reserved to the implementation to designate that library object with external linkage,160 both in namespace std and in the global namespace.
Each global function signature declared with external linkage in a header is reserved to the implementation to designate that function signature with external linkage.161
Each name from the C standard library declared with external linkage is reserved to the implementation for use as a name with extern "C" linkage, both in namespace std and in the global namespace.
Each function signature from the C standard library declared with external linkage is reserved to the implementation for use as a function signature with both extern "C" and extern "C++" linkage,162 or as a name of namespace scope in the global namespace.
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The list of such reserved names includes errno, declared or defined in <cerrno>.
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The list of such reserved function signatures with external linkage includes setjmp(jmp_buf), declared or defined in <csetjmp>, and va_end(va_list), declared or defined in <cstdarg>.
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The function signatures declared in <cuchar>, <cwchar>, and <cwctype> are always reserved, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed in subclause 4.5.1 of Amendment 1 to the C Standard for these headers.

16.4.5.3.5 Types [extern.types]

For each type T from the C standard library, the types ​::​T and std​::​T are reserved to the implementation and, when defined, ​::​T shall be identical to std​::​T.

16.4.5.3.6 User-defined literal suffixes [usrlit.suffix]

Literal suffix identifiers ([over.literal]) that do not start with an underscore are reserved for future standardization.
Literal suffix identifiers that contain a double underscore __ are reserved for use by C++ implementations.