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+<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.5: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
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+<title>Review Wizard Status Report for January 2006</title>
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+<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.boost.org/rst.css" type="text/css" />
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+<div class="document" id="review-wizard-status-report-for-january-2006">
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+<h1 class="title">Review Wizard Status Report for January 2006</h1>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h1><a id="news" name="news">News</a></h1>
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+<p>Happy New Year! Here are some statistics regarding Boost Library
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+reviews in 2005:</p>
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+<blockquote>
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+<ul class="simple">
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+<li>12 Libraries were reviewed</li>
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+<li>8 Libraries were accepted</li>
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+<li>1 Library (Function Types) was accepted pending a mini-review</li>
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+<li>2 Libraries were rejected</li>
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+<li>1 Library has yet to receive a final verdict (ASIO)</li>
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+</ul>
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+</blockquote>
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+<p>Policy Pointer has been removed from the review queue because the author has
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+stated that it is not quite ready.</p>
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+<p>We need review managers. Please take a look at the list of libraries
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+in need of managers and check out their descriptions. If you can
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+serve as review manager for any of them, send one of us an email.</p>
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+<dl class="docutils">
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+<dt>Note:</dt>
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+<dd>If you have any suggestions about how we could improve
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+the Review Wizard's status report,
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+please email "reportbase at gmail dot com"
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+and "garcia at cs dot indiana dot edu".</dd>
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+</dl>
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+</div>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h1><a id="review-managers-needed" name="review-managers-needed">Review Managers Needed</a></h1>
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+<p>There are a few libraries in the review queue in need
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+of review managers. If you would like to volunteer to be a review
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+manager, please contact Ron or Tom.</p>
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+<p>The following libraries still require review managers:</p>
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+<blockquote>
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+<ul class="simple">
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+<li>Fusion</li>
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+<li>Shmem</li>
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+<li>Pimpl Pointer</li>
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+<li>Type Traits (modification)</li>
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+<li>Function Types</li>
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+</ul>
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+</blockquote>
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+</div>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h1><a id="review-queue" name="review-queue">Review Queue</a></h1>
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+<blockquote>
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+<ul class="simple">
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+<li>Fixed Strings - January 19 2006 - January 28 2006</li>
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+<li>Intrusive Containers</li>
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+<li>Function Types (mini-re-review)</li>
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+<li>Shmem</li>
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+<li>Fusion</li>
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+<li>Pimpl Pointer</li>
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+<li>Type Traits (modification)</li>
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+</ul>
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+</blockquote>
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+<hr class="docutils" />
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+<div class="section">
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+<h2><a id="fixed-strings" name="fixed-strings">Fixed Strings</a></h2>
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+<blockquote>
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+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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+<col class="field-name" />
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+<col class="field-body" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Reece Dunn</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Harmut Kaiser</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox (<a class="reference" href="http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/">http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/</a>) under fixed_string</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The fixed string library provides buffer overrun protection for static
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+sized strings (char s[ n ]). It provides a C-style string
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+interface for compatibility with C code (for
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+example, porting a C program to C++).
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+There is also a std::string-style interface using a class based on
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+flex_string by Andre Alexandrescu with a few limitations due to the
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+non-resizable nature of the class.</td>
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+</tr>
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+</tbody>
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+</table>
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+</blockquote>
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+</div>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h2><a id="intrusive-containers" name="intrusive-containers">Intrusive Containers</a></h2>
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+<blockquote>
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+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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+<col class="field-name" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Olaf Krzikalla</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">to be determined</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://people.freenet.de/turtle++/intrusive.zip">http://people.freenet.de/turtle++/intrusive.zip</a></td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">While intrusive containers were and are widely used in C, they became
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+more and more forgotten in the C++-world due to the presence of the
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+standard containers, which don't support intrusive
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+techniques. Boost.Intrusive not only reintroduces this technique to
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+C++, but also encapsulates the implementation in STL-like
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+interfaces. Hence anyone familiar with standard containers can use
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+intrusive containers with ease.</td>
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+</tr>
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+</tbody>
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+</table>
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+</blockquote>
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+</div>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h2><a id="function-types-mini-re-review" name="function-types-mini-re-review">Function Types (mini-re-review)</a></h2>
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+<blockquote>
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+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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+<col class="field-name" />
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+<col class="field-body" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Tobias Schwinger</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">to be determined</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/">http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/</a></p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first last docutils">
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+<dt>This library provides a metaprogramming facility</dt>
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+<dd><p class="first last">to classify, decompose and synthesize function-,
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+function pointer-, function reference- and
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+member function pointer types. For the purpose
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+of this documentation, these types are
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+collectively referred to as function
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+types (this differs from the standard
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+definition and redefines the term from
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+a programmer's perspective to refer to
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+the most common types that involve functions).</p>
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+</dd>
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+<dt>The classes introduced by this library</dt>
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+<dd><p class="first last">shall conform to the concepts of the
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+Boost Metaprogramming library (MPL).</p>
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+</dd>
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+<dt>The Function Types library enables the user to:</dt>
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+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
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+<li>test an arbitrary type for
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+being a function type of specified kind,</li>
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+<li>inspect properties of function types,</li>
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+<li>view and modify sub types of an
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+encapsulated function type with
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+MPL Sequence operations, and</li>
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+<li>synthesize function types.</li>
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+</ul>
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+</dd>
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+<dt>This library supports variadic functions and</dt>
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+<dd><p class="first last">can be configured to support
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+non-default calling conventions.</p>
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+</dd>
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+</dl>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+</tbody>
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+</table>
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+</blockquote>
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+</div>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h2><a id="shmem" name="shmem">Shmem</a></h2>
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+<blockquote>
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+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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+<col class="field-name" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Ion Gaztanaga</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">to be determined</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Boost Sandbox Vault -> Memory (<a class="reference" href="http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Memory">http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Memory</a>)</p>
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+<p><a class="reference" href="http://ice.prohosting.com/newfunk/boost/libs/shmem/doc/html/index.html">http://ice.prohosting.com/newfunk/boost/libs/shmem/doc/html/index.html</a></p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Shmem offers tools to simplify shared memory usage in
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+applications. These include shared memory creation/destruction and
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+synchronization objects. It also implements dynamic allocation of
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+portions of a shared memory segment and an easy way to construct C++
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+objects in shared memory.</p>
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+<p class="last">Apart from this, Shmem implements a wide range of STL-like containers
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+and allocators that can be safely placed in shared memory, helpful to
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+implement complex shared memory data-bases and other efficient
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+inter-process communications.</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+</tbody>
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+</table>
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+</blockquote>
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+</div>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h2><a id="fusion" name="fusion">Fusion</a></h2>
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+<blockquote>
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+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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+<col class="field-name" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Joel de Guzman</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">to be determined</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference" href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/">http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/</a>
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+<a class="reference" href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip">http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip</a></p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Fusion is a library of heterogenous containers and views and
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+algorithms. A set of heterogenous containers (vector, list, set and
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+map) is provided out of the box along with view classes that present
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+various composable views over the data. The containers and views
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+follow a common sequence concept with an underlying iterator concept
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+that binds it all together, suitably making the algorithms fully
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+generic over all sequence types.</p>
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+<p class="last">The architecture is somewhat modeled after MPL which in turn is
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+modeled after STL. It is code-named "fusion" because the library is
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+the "fusion" of compile time metaprogramming with runtime programming.</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+</tbody>
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+</table>
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+</blockquote>
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+</div>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h2><a id="pimpl-pointer" name="pimpl-pointer">Pimpl Pointer</a></h2>
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+<blockquote>
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+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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+<col class="field-name" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Asger Mangaard</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">to be determined</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox (<a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/</a>) under pimpl_ptr.</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The pimpl idiom is widely used to reduce compile times and disable
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+code coupling. It does so by moving private parts of a class from the
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+.hpp file to the .cpp file.
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+However, it's implementation can be tricky, and with many pitfalls
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+(especially regarding memory management).
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+The pimpl_ptr library is a single header file, implementing a special
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+policy based smart pointer to greately ease the implementation of the
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+pimpl idiom.</td>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h2><a id="type-traits-modification" name="type-traits-modification">Type_Traits (modification)</a></h2>
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+<tbody valign="top">
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Alexander Nasonov</p>
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+</td>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">to be determined</p>
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+</td>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference" href="http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz">http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz</a>
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+or <a class="reference" href="http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/">http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/</a></p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Proposal to add promote, integral_promotion and
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+floating_point_promotion class templates to type_traits library.</p>
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+<p>Alexander tried it on different compilers with various success:
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+GNU/Linux (gentoo-hardened): gcc 3.3 and 3.4, Intel 7, 8 and 9
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+Windows: VC7 free compiler
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+Sparc Solaris: Sun C++ 5.3 and 5.7</p>
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+<p>See comments at the beginning of promote_enum_test.cpp for what is broken.
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+<a class="reference" href="http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/libs/type_traits/test/promote_enum_test.cpp">http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/libs/type_traits/test/promote_enum_test.cpp</a></p>
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+<p class="last">Alexander requests a fast-track review.</p>
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+</td>
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+</tr>
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+</table>
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+</blockquote>
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+</div>
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+</div>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h1><a id="libraries-under-development" name="libraries-under-development">Libraries under development</a></h1>
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+<div class="section">
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+<h2><a id="property-tree" name="property-tree">Property Tree</a></h2>
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+<blockquote>
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+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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+<tbody valign="top">
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Marcin Kalicinski</td>
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+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox Vault (<a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/</a>)
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+property_tree_rev3.zip</td>
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+</tr>
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+</tbody>
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+</table>
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+</blockquote>
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+<p>Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
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+developing that you intend to submit for review.</p>
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+</div>
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