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Where do I find the current C or C++ standard documents?
After reading several websites and books, I notice there is a constant reference to a C++ standard. While reading posts on stackoverflow and c++ forums, the communities encourage following this standard. This encouraged me to Google c++ standard to find out in more detail about the language. Is the standard a book? a published document? a mystic spirit that speaks through some seemingly crazed medium? Is there a single source and a final version that people refer to for verification? Several sites and books claim to be based off the standard, but this is not the same as the standard.
So far, I have found recommendations to look at the ISO standard (which seems to be mostly incomplete drafts) and the GNU c++ documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/. I have briefly used these to try to answer some of the questions that come to mind, but I want to make sure these are the proper references to use when answering questions (my own or others) and that I do so according to the proper standard and not something based on the standard (there is a difference).
Just to note:
For me, 99% of all my programming will be done in a Linux environment so there may (or may not be) a different standard for different operating systems
There is a single version of standard. There is no difference between systems( it is one standard). You have to pay go get full version of the standard ( even for PDF file). Everyone is using:
https://github.com/cplusplus/draft [EDITED TO THE NEWEST VERSION]
for free, because it is draft version and it is free. There are some different between draft and released one.