I'm trying to learn new features/gimmicks of c++17, but then I got to std::byte and for some unknown reason I can't seem to be able to compile even most basic "hello world" type program with the type.
entire program:
#include <cstddef>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
std::byte byte;
return 0;
}
compilation command:
g++ ./main.cpp
But the output is always:
./main.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
./main.cpp:4:10: error: ‘byte’ is not a member of ‘std’
std::byte byte;
I work on Ubuntu 18.04 with gcc 7.4.0. I have checked "/usr/include/c++/7.4.0/" and header file cstddef is there and byte seems to be defined.
I have also tried to use clang:
clang++ ./main.cpp
But the result was same. At this point I can only think that cstddef is corrupted/bugged. Are there any solutions to this?
As πάντα ῥεῖ pointed out in comment I was missing c++17 compile flag. Right compilation command:
g++ -std=c++17 ./main.cpp