C++中POD是什么？

什么是POD?
POD 的全称是 Plain Old Data，在C++标准中，POD是这样定义的：
Arithmetic types (3.9.1), enumeration types, pointer types, and pointer to member types (3.9.2), and cv-qualified（注2） versions of these types (3.9.3) are collectively called scalar types. Scalar types, POD-struct types,POD-union types (clause 9), arrays of such types and cv-qualified versions of these types (3.9.3) are collectively called POD types.

什么是cv-qualified ？
这里的CV分别是const 以及volatile的缩写。用const，volatile以及const volatile之一作修饰的变量被成为cv-qualified ，否则该变量是cv-unqualified

class是不是POD类型？
如果一个class没有non-trivial 的 constructor, destructor, 以及 copy assignmet operator这些东西的话，这个class事实上已经退化成一个POD类型了，就相当于C中的struct。

 

POD类型包括下面类型：

1、标量类型，c/c++的基本类型

• signed integer types (signed char, short, int, long),
• unsigned integer types (unsigned char,unsigned short, unsigned int,unsigned long),
• char and wchar_t, and
• bool.
• float, double, and long double

• pointer-to-void (void *),
• pointer-to-object and pointer-to-static-member-data (both of the form T* when pointing to an object of typeT), and
• pointer-to-function and pointer-to-static-member-function (both of the form T (*)(...) when pointing to a function that returns an object of typeT).

• pointer-to-nonstatic-member-data (of the form T C::* when pointing to one of classC's data members that has type T), and
• pointer-to-nonstatic-member-functions (of the form T (C::*)(...) when pointing to one of classC's member functions that returns an object of typeT).

2、用户自定义的类类型：

• non-static data (including arrays) of any pointer-to-member type,
• non-static data (including arrays) of any non-POD class type,
• non-static data of any reference type,
• user-defined copy assignment operator, nor
• user-defined destructor.
• user-declared constructors,
• private or protected non-static data members,
• base classes, nor
• virtual functions.

相关资源：

http://www.fnal.gov/docs/working-groups/fpcltf/Pkg/ISOcxx/doc/POD.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146452/what-are-pod-types-in-c