Cleanup documentation URLs

README.md

@@ -616,14 +616,14 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
 [enhancement tag]: https://github.com/microsoft/STL/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aenhancement
 [gbenchmark]: https://github.com/google/benchmark
 [gbenchmark:docs]: https://github.com/google/benchmark/blob/main/docs/user_guide.md
-[hub]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4021566/windows-10-send-feedback-to-microsoft-with-feedback-hub-app
+[hub]: https://support.microsoft.com/help/4021566
 [libcxx]: https://libcxx.llvm.org
 [lit]: https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/lit.html
 [lit result codes]: https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/lit.html#test-status-results
-[redistributables]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist
-[natvis documentation]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/create-custom-views-of-native-objects
-[ASan]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/sanitizers/asan
+[redistributables]: https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist
+[natvis documentation]: https://learn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/debugger/create-custom-views-of-native-objects
+[ASan]: https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/sanitizers/asan
 [Import Library]: /docs/import_library.md
 [VS 2026 Insiders]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/insiders/
 [CXXFLAGS]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/envvar/CXXFLAGS.html
-[start-command]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/start
+[start-command]: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/start

azure-devops/create-1es-hosted-pool.ps1

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Display-ProgressBar -Status 'Creating virtual network subnet config'
 # TRANSITION, 2026-03-31: "After March 31, 2026, new virtual networks will default to using private subnets,
 # meaning that an explicit outbound method must be enabled in order to reach public endpoints on the Internet
 # and within Microsoft."
-# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/default-outbound-access
+# https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/default-outbound-access
 # We're using `-DefaultOutboundAccess $false` to opt-in early.
 $SubnetName = "$ResourceGroupName-Subnet"
 $Subnet = New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig `

azure-devops/provision-image.ps1

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ $VisualStudioWorkloads = @(
   'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows11SDK.26100'
 )
 
-# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/visual-studio-on-arm-devices
+# https://learn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/install/visual-studio-on-arm-devices
 # "There's a single installer for both Visual Studio x64 and Visual Studio Arm64 architectures.
 # The Visual Studio Installer detects whether the system architecture is Arm64.
 # If it is, the installer downloads and installs the Arm64 version of Visual Studio."
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Write-Host 'Setting environment variables...'
 
 Write-Host 'Enabling long paths...'
 
-# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=powershell
+# https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation
 New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem' -Name 'LongPathsEnabled' `
   -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force | Out-Null
 

stl/debugger/STL.natvis

@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
    * Hard coding _BUF_SIZE for clang-cl compatibility; clang-cl as of 7.0.1 does not emit S_CONSTANT to get _BUF_SIZE
    *
    * The `na` format specifier means "no address". For more info, see:
-   * https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/format-specifiers-in-cpp?view=vs-2022
+   * https://learn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/debugger/format-specifiers-in-cpp
    -->
   <Type Name="std::basic_string&lt;*&gt;">
     <Intrinsic Name="size" Expression="_Mypair._Myval2._Mysize" />

stl/inc/__msvc_print.hpp

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ _NODISCARD _Success_(return == __std_win_error::_Success) __std_win_error
 _STD_BEGIN
 
 _NODISCARD consteval bool _Is_ordinary_literal_encoding_utf8() {
-    // See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/code-page-identifiers
+    // See: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/intl/code-page-identifiers
 #if defined(_MSVC_EXECUTION_CHARACTER_SET) && _MSVC_EXECUTION_CHARACTER_SET == 65001 // Unicode (UTF-8) == 65001
     return true;
 #else

stl/inc/complex

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #ifdef _M_CEE_PURE
 // no intrinsics for /clr:pure
 #elif defined(_M_ARM64) || defined(_M_ARM64EC)
-// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/arm64-windows-abi-conventions?view=msvc-170#base-requirements
+// https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/build/arm64-windows-abi-conventions#base-requirements
 // Both floating-point and NEON support are presumed to be present in hardware.
 #define _FMP_USING_STD_FMA
 #elif defined(_M_IX86) || defined(_M_X64)

stl/inc/format

@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ _NODISCARD constexpr bool _Is_execution_charset_self_synchronizing() {
     // We care about this because if a charset is self-synchronizing then we can search through it
     // for formatting control characters _without_ generally decoding the format string.
     switch (_MSVC_EXECUTION_CHARACTER_SET) {
-    // See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/code-page-identifiers
+    // See: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/intl/code-page-identifiers
     case 874: // Thai (Windows)
     case 1250: // ANSI Central European; Central European (Windows)
     case 1251: // ANSI Cyrillic; Cyrillic (Windows)

stl/inc/xutility

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ _STL_DISABLE_CLANG_WARNINGS
 #endif // ^^^ vector algorithms supported by default ^^^
 
 // _USE_STD_VECTOR_ALGORITHMS is our documented control macro:
-// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/standard-library/vectorized-stl-algorithms?view=msvc-170
+// https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/standard-library/vectorized-stl-algorithms
 // In the STL's implementation, we inspect the following detection macros,
 // because various algorithms are vectorized for various architectures.
 

stl/src/StlCompareStringA.cpp

@@ -12,23 +12,22 @@
 // int __cdecl __crtCompareStringA - Get type information about an ANSI string.
 //
 // Purpose:
-//        Internal support function. Assumes info in ANSI string format. Tries
-//        to use NLS API call CompareStringA if available and uses CompareStringW
-//        if it must. If neither is available it fails and returns 0.
+//   Internal support function. Assumes info in ANSI string format. Tries
+//   to use NLS API call CompareStringA if available and uses CompareStringW
+//   if it must. If neither is available it fails and returns 0.
 //
 // Entry:
-//        LPCWSTR LocaleName  - locale context for the comparison.
-//        DWORD   dwCmpFlags  - see https://aka.ms/stl/comparestringex
-//        LPCSTR  lpStringn   - multibyte string to be compared
-//        int     cchCountn   - char (byte) count (NOT including null terminator)
-//                              (-1 if null terminated)
-//        int     code_page   - for MB/WC conversion. If 0, use __lc_codepage
+//   LPCWSTR  LocaleName  - locale context for the comparison.
+//   DWORD    dwCmpFlags  - https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/stringapiset/nf-stringapiset-comparestringex
+//   LPCSTR   lpStringn   - multibyte string to be compared
+//   int      cchCountn   - char (byte) count (NOT including null terminator) (-1 if null terminated)
+//   int      code_page   - for MB/WC conversion. If 0, use __lc_codepage
 //
 // Exit:
-//        Success: 1 - if lpString1 <  lpString2
-//                 2 - if lpString1 == lpString2
-//                 3 - if lpString1 >  lpString2
-//        Failure: 0
+//   Success: 1 - if lpString1 <  lpString2
+//            2 - if lpString1 == lpString2
+//            3 - if lpString1 >  lpString2
+//   Failure: 0
 extern "C" _CRTIMP2 int __cdecl __crtCompareStringA(_In_z_ LPCWSTR LocaleName, _In_ DWORD dwCmpFlags,
     _In_reads_(cchCount1) LPCSTR lpString1, _In_ int cchCount1, _In_reads_(cchCount2) LPCSTR lpString2,
     _In_ int cchCount2, _In_ int code_page) noexcept {

stl/src/StlCompareStringW.cpp

@@ -14,10 +14,9 @@
 //
 // Entry:
 //   LPCWSTR  LocaleName  - locale context for the comparison.
-//   DWORD    dwCmpFlags  - see https://aka.ms/stl/comparestringex
+//   DWORD    dwCmpFlags  - https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/stringapiset/nf-stringapiset-comparestringex
 //   LPCWSTR  lpStringn   - wide string to be compared
-//   int      cchCountn   - wide char (word) count (NOT including null terminator)
-//                        (-1 if null terminated)
+//   int      cchCountn   - wide char (word) count (NOT including null terminator) (-1 if null terminated)
 //
 // Exit:
 //   Success: 1 - if lpString1 <  lpString2

stl/src/StlLCMapStringA.cpp

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 //
 // Entry:
 //        LPCWSTR  LocaleName  - locale context for the comparison.
-//        DWORD    dwMapFlags  - see https://aka.ms/stl/lcmapstringex
+//        DWORD    dwMapFlags  - see https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/winnls/nf-winnls-lcmapstringex
 //        LPCSTR   lpSrcStr    - pointer to string to be mapped
 //        int      cchSrc      - wide char (word) count of input string
 //                               (including null terminator if any)

stl/src/StlLCMapStringW.cpp

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 //
 // Entry:
 //        LPCWSTR  locale_name       - locale context for the comparison.
-//        DWORD    map_flags         - see https://aka.ms/stl/lcmapstringex
+//        DWORD    map_flags         - see https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/winnls/nf-winnls-lcmapstringex
 //        LPCWSTR  source            - pointer to string to be mapped
 //        int      source_count      - wide char (word) count of input string
 //                                     (including null terminator if any)

stl/src/cthread.cpp

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ _CRTIMP2_PURE unsigned int __cdecl _Thrd_hardware_concurrency() noexcept { // re
     DWORD buffer_size         = stack_buffer_size;
     _STD unique_ptr<unsigned char[]> new_buffer;
 
-    // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoapi/nf-sysinfoapi-getlogicalprocessorinformationex
+    // https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/sysinfoapi/nf-sysinfoapi-getlogicalprocessorinformationex
     // The buffer "receives a sequence of variable-sized SYSTEM_LOGICAL_PROCESSOR_INFORMATION_EX structures".
     for (;;) {
         if (GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx(RelationProcessorPackage,

stl/src/print.cpp

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ extern "C" {
     const int _Fd = _fileno(_Stream);
 
     if (_Fd == -2) {
-        // According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/fileno?view=msvc-170 ,
+        // According to https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/fileno ,
         // _fileno() returns -2 if _Stream refers to either stdout or stderr and there is no associated output stream.
         // In that case, there is also no associated console HANDLE. (We haven't observed this happening in practice.)
         return __std_unicode_console_retrieval_result{._Error = __std_win_error::_Not_supported};

tests/std/tests/GH_001923_filesystem_long_path_support/long_path_aware.manifest

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
 SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
 -->
 
-<!-- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/application-manifests#longPathAware -->
+<!-- https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/sbscs/application-manifests#longPathAware -->
 <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
   <asmv3:application>
     <asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns:ws2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2016/WindowsSettings">

tests/std/tests/GH_001923_filesystem_long_path_support/test.cpp

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ using namespace std;
 #pragma comment(lib, "Advapi32") // for RegGetValueW()
 
 bool are_long_paths_enabled() {
-    // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=powershell
-    // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winreg/nf-winreg-reggetvaluew
+    // https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation
+    // https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/winreg/nf-winreg-reggetvaluew
     DWORD registry_value = 0;
     DWORD buffer_size    = sizeof(registry_value);
     const LSTATUS status = RegGetValueW(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, LR"(SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem)",

tests/std/tests/GH_005780_non_ascii_locales/test.cpp

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ void assert_string_non_ascii(const string& str) {
 
 // GH-5780 <iostream>: Printing with std::cout changes the global locale permanently
 void test_gh_5780() {
-    // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/language-strings#supported-language-strings
+    // https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/c-runtime-library/language-strings#supported-language-strings
     const string locale_name = set_locale("norwegian-bokmal.437");
     assert_string_non_ascii(locale_name);
 

tests/std/tests/P0811R3_midpoint_lerp/test.cpp

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ using limits = numeric_limits<Ty>;
 
 #ifdef _M_FP_STRICT
 // According to:
-// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/fp-specify-floating-point-behavior
+// https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/build/reference/fp-specify-floating-point-behavior
 // Under the default /fp:precise mode:
 //  The compiler generates code intended to run in the default floating-point environment and assumes that the
 //  floating-point environment is not accessed or modified at runtime.

tests/std/tests/P0896R4_ranges_range_machinery/test.cpp

@@ -2090,7 +2090,6 @@ constexpr bool complicated_algorithm_test() {
 }
 
 // Regression test for DevCom-739010 (aka VSO-985597)
-// https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/739010/meow.html
 // which allows overload resolution to prefer a hidden friend `const T&` overload of `begin`
 // for an rvalue `T` over the deleted `begin(T&&)` instantiated from the poison pill.
 template <class T>

tests/std/tests/P2093R14_formatted_output/test.cpp

@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
 
             constexpr BOOL inherit_handles = TRUE;
 
-            // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/process-creation-flags
+            // https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/procthread/process-creation-flags
             // "The new process has a new console, instead of inheriting its parent's console (the default)."
             constexpr DWORD creation_flags = CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE;
 

tests/std/tests/VSO_0000000_string_view_idl/test.cpp

@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
 #endif // _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL != 0
 
     // basic_string_view::_Copy_s() is a non-Standard extension that's unconditionally checked.
-    // See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/standard-library/basic-string-view-class?view=msvc-170#_copy_s
+    // See: https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/standard-library/basic-string-view-class#_copy_s
     exec.add_death_tests({
         test_case_Copy_s,
     });

tests/std/tests/VSO_0744055_atomic_load_8_bytes_readonly/test.cpp

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ int main() {
     // See DevCom-274938, where a customer wanted to read a std::atomic from a read-only memory-mapped file.
     // This was originally implemented with cmpxchg8b on x86 which raised a write access violation.
 
-    // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/memoryapi/nf-memoryapi-createfilemappingw
+    // https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/memoryapi/nf-memoryapi-createfilemappingw
     // "If hFile is INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, [...] CreateFileMapping creates a file mapping object of a
     // specified size that is backed by the system paging file instead of by a file in the file system."
     // "The initial contents of the pages in a file mapping object