C++ named requirements: TriviallyCopyable

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Technical Specifications

C++ named requirements

Basic
DefaultConstructible CopyAssignable CopyConstructible	MoveAssignable (C++11) MoveConstructible (C++11) Destructible
Layout
TrivialType (C++11) TriviallyCopyable (C++11)	StandardLayoutType (C++11) PODType
Library-Wide
EqualityComparable LessThanComparable Swappable (C++11) ValueSwappable (C++11) NullablePointer (C++11) Hash (C++11)	Allocator FunctionObject Callable Predicate BinaryPredicate Compare
Container
Container SequenceContainer ContiguousContainer (C++17) ReversibleContainer	AssociativeContainer AllocatorAwareContainer UnorderedAssociativeContainer (C++11)
Container Elements
DefaultInsertable (C++11) CopyInsertable (C++11) MoveInsertable (C++11)	EmplaceConstructible (C++11) Erasable (C++11)
Iterator
Iterator OutputIterator InputIterator ForwardIterator	BidirectionalIterator RandomAccessIterator ContiguousIterator (C++17) ConstexprIterator (C++20)
Stream I/O
FormattedInputFunction UnformattedInputFunction	FormattedOutputFunction UnformattedOutputFunction
Random Numbers
SeedSequence (C++11) RandomNumberEngine (C++11)	RandomNumberDistribution (C++11) UniformRandomBitGenerator (C++11) RandomNumberEngineAdaptor (C++11)
Concurrency
BasicLockable (C++11) Lockable (C++11) TimedLockable (C++11)	Mutex (C++11) TimedMutex (C++11) SharedMutex (C++17) SharedTimedMutex (C++14)
Other
CharTraits RegexTraits (C++11) BitmaskType NumericType LiteralType (C++11)	UnaryTypeTrait (C++11) BinaryTypeTrait (C++11) TransformationTrait (C++11) Clock (C++11) TrivialClock (C++11)

Requirements

• Every copy constructor is trivial or deleted
• Every move constructor is trivial or deleted
• Every copy assignment operator is trivial or deleted
• Every move assignment operator is trivial or deleted
• at least one copy constructor, move constructor, copy assignment operator, or move assignment operator is non-deleted
• Trivial non-deleted destructor

This implies that the class has no virtual functions or virtual base classes.

Scalar types and arrays of TriviallyCopyable objects are TriviallyCopyable as well, as well as the const-qualified (but not volatile-qualified) versions of such types.

Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

DR	Applied to	Behavior as published	Correct behavior
CWG 1734	C++11	C++03 POD with deleted non-trivial assignment was not trivial	deleted ctors/operators allowed

See also

is_trivially_copyable (C++11)

checks if a type is trivially copyable (class template)