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Re:C++17 Standard Published by m-ou-se on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:57PM (#15856417)
You can build the pdf yourself from the LaTeX source: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft

Or get the latest public draft from https://wg21.link/standard

Or an html version: http://eelis.net/c++draft/

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Re:C++17 Standard Published by mratzloff on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:21PM (#15856593)
Thanks. I just like having an official (not draft) copy. I'm a nerd.

I just built from the LaTeX source and it's 32 pages longer than the public draft in the second link from 6 weeks ago. Maybe just additional descriptive language, but...

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Re:C++17 Standard Published by Someone on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:49PM (#15856829)
Reading https://github.com/cplusplus/draft, it seems you had to generate figures from their dot source.

If so, the result may depend on your installation (probably even if you use the same version of GraphViz but a different OS and/or set of fonts), and that can affect pagination.

Also, are you sure you built for the same paper size? A4 vs US letter could explain the difference.

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Re:C++17 Standard Published by mratzloff on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @06:25PM (#15857133)
Well, you can see changes as recently as two days ago.

https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/commit/83e302d3bb6a5f8855...

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Re:C++17 Standard Published by gomijacogeo on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:22AM (#15859007)
In one way, the last draft is more canonical than the official spec - if you are talking chapter and verse to another person about the spec, odds are good that they are referring to the last public draft also.
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Re:C++17 Standard Published by vortico on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @11:50PM (#15858616)
The C++ draft and published standard are so similar, the only parties I imagine would need the published copy are gcc frontend developers, technical managers at IBM, etc. As an individual who gets into the deep dark crevices of C++, I've never needed the tiny details the published standard offers. They are mostly typographical.
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Re:C++17 Standard Published by jcelerier on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:47AM (#15860091)
iirc even gcc devs don't have it and use the draft
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