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  69. <h2>Libraries Listed <a name="Alphabetically">Alphabetically</a></h2>
  70. <ul>
  71. <li><a href="accumulators/index.html">accumulators</a> - Framework for incremental
  72. calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  73. <li><a href="algorithm/index.html">algorithm</a> - A collection of useful generic
  74. algorithms, from Marshall Clow.&nbsp;</li>
  75. <li><a href="align/index.html">align</a> - Memory alignment functions,
  76. allocators, and adaptors, from Glen Fernandes.</li>
  77. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  78. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.&nbsp;</li>
  79. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  80. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  81. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  82. <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level
  83. I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
  84. ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
  85. <li><a href="assert/assert.html">assert</a> - Customizable assert macros, from Peter Dimov.</li>
  86. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  87. with constant or generated data has never been
  88. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  89. </li>
  90. <li><a href="atomic/index.html">atomic</a> - C++11-style atomic<>, from Helge Bahmann, maintained by Tim Blechmann.</li>
  91. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  92. </li>
  93. <li><a href="bind/bind.html">bind</a> and <a href="bind/mem_fn.html"> mem_fn</a> - Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions, from Peter
  94. Dimov.</li>
  95. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  96. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  97. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  98. <li><a href="chrono/index.html">chrono</a> - Useful time utilities,
  99. from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  100. <li><a href="circular_buffer/index.html">circular_buffer</a> - STL compliant
  101. container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.</li>
  102. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  103. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  104. Maurer.</li>
  105. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  106. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  107. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  108. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  109. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  110. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  111. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  112. intended for library users.</li>
  113. <li><a href="container/index.html">container</a> - Standard library containers and extensions, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  114. <li><a href="context/index.html">context</a> - Context switching library, from Oliver Kowalke</li>
  115. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.</li>
  116. <li><a href="core/index.html">core</a> - A collection of core utilities, maintained by Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes, and Andrey Semashev.</li>
  117. <li><a href="coroutine/index.html">coroutine</a> - Coroutine library, from Oliver Kowalke</li>
  118. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  119. Walker.</li>
  120. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  121. <li><a href="dynamic_bitset/dynamic_bitset.html">dynamic_bitset</a> - A runtime sized version of <tt>std::bitset</tt> from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison.</li>
  122. <li><a href="exception/doc/boost-exception.html">exception</a> - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2179.html">N2179</a>), from Emil Dotchevski.</li>
  123. <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> - Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
  124. <li><a href="filesystem/index.html">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  125. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  126. Beman Dawes.</li>
  127. <li><a href="flyweight/doc/index.html">flyweight</a> - Design pattern
  128. to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects,
  129. from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  130. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  131. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  132. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  133. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  134. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  135. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  136. <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits
  137. for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  138. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  139. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  140. <li><a href="functional/factory/index.html">functional/factory</a> -
  141. function object templates for dynamic and static object creation,
  142. from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  143. <li><a href="functional/forward/index.html">functional/forward</a> -
  144. adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary
  145. arguments, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  146. <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
  147. A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
  148. types, from Daniel James.</li>
  149. <li><a href="functional/overloaded_function/index.html">functional/overloaded_function</a> -
  150. Overload different functions into a single function object, from Lorenzo Caminiti.</li>
  151. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  152. Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
  153. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
  154. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  155. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  156. <li><a href="geometry/index.html">geometry</a> - Geometry Library, from
  157. Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande and Mateusz Loskot.</li>
  158. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  159. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  160. and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li>
  161. <li><a href="heap/index.html">heap</a> -
  162. Priority queue data structures, from Tim Blechmann</li>
  163. <li><a href="icl/index.html">icl</a> -
  164. Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation
  165. of associated values, from Joachim Faulhaber.</li>
  166. <li><a href="utility/identity_type/index.html">identity_type</a> -
  167. Wrap types within round parenthesis so they can always be passed as macro parameters, from Lorenzo Caminiti.</li>
  168. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  169. dealing with integral types.</li>
  170. <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess</a> - Shared memory, memory mapped files,
  171. process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  172. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval</a> - Extends the
  173. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  174. Melquiond, Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  175. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive</a> - Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  176. <li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  177. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  178. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  179. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  180. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterator</a> - Iterator
  181. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  182. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  183. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  184. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko J&auml;rvi and
  185. Gary Powell.</li>
  186. <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">lexical_cast</a> -&nbsp; General literal text conversions, such as an <code>int</code> represented as
  187. a <code>string</code>, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  188. <li><a href="local_function/index.html">local_function</a> -
  189. Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed, from Lorenzo Caminiti.</li>
  190. <li><a href="locale/index.html">locale</a> - Provide localization and Unicode
  191. handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis</li>
  192. <li><a href="lockfree/index.html">lockfree</a> - Lockfree data structures, from Tim Blechmann</li>
  193. <li><a href="log/index.html">log</a> - Logging library, from Andrey Semashev</li>
  194. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  195. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  196. <li><a href="math/doc/html/inverse_complex.html">math/complex number algorithms</a> -
  197. These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.</li>
  198. <li><a href="math/doc/html/gcd_lcm.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  199. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  200. <li><a href="math/doc/html/constants.html">math/constants</a> - A wide range of numeric constants from Paul Bristow and John Maddock.</li>
  201. <li><a href="math/doc/html/utils.html">math/floating point utilities</a> - Utilities for manipulating floating point values from Johan Rade.</li>
  202. <li><a href="math/doc/html/octonions.html">math/octonion</a> - Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  203. <li><a href="math/doc/html/special.html">math/special_functions</a> - A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.</li>
  204. <li><a href="math/doc/html/dist.html">math/statistical distributions</a> - A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow</li>
  205. <li><a href="math/doc/html/quaternions.html">math/quaternion</a> - Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  206. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  207. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  208. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  209. <li><a href="move/index.html">move</a> - Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++1 compilers, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  210. <li><a href="../doc/html/mpi.html">MPI</a> - Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming, from Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer.</li>
  211. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  212. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  213. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  214. <li><a href="msm/index.html">meta state machine</a> - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.</li>
  215. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  216. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  217. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  218. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  219. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  220. <li><a href="multiprecision/index.html">multiprecision</a> - Extended precision arithmetic types
  221. for floating point, integer and rational arithmetic from John Maddock and Christopher Kormanyos.</li>
  222. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  223. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  224. <li><a href="numeric/odeint/index.html">odeint</a> - Solving ordinary differential equations, from Karsten Ahnert and Mario Mulansky.</li>
  225. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  226. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  227. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  228. <li><a href="optional/doc/html/index.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  229. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  230. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  231. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  232. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  233. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  234. <li><a href="phoenix/index.html">Phoenix</a> - Define small unnamed
  235. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Joel de Guzman, Dan
  236. Marsden and Thomas Heller</li>
  237. <li><a href="predef/index.html">Predef</a> - This library defines a set of
  238. compiler, architecture, operating system, library, and other version
  239. numbers from the information it can gather of C, C++, Objective C, and
  240. Objective C++ predefined macros or those defined in generally available
  241. headers, from Rene Rivera.</li>
  242. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  243. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease
  244. OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  245. <li><a href="polygon/index.html">polygon</a> - Voronoi diagram construction
  246. and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons
  247. with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson, Andrii Sydorchuk.</li>
  248. <li><a href="pool/doc/html/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  249. Steve Cleary.</li>
  250. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  251. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  252. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  253. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  254. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  255. <li><a href="property_map/doc/property_map.html">property map</a>
  256. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  257. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  258. <li><a href="property_tree/index.html">property tree</a> - A tree data
  259. structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin
  260. Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.</li>
  261. <li><a href="proto/index.html">proto</a> - Expression template library and compiler
  262. construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  263. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  264. classes and functions into <a
  265. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  266. Abrahams.</li>
  267. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  268. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  269. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - Concepts and utilities for
  270. range-based algorithms, as well as range-based algorithms and range
  271. adaptors that allow for efficient and very expressive code, from
  272. Thorsten Ottosen and Neil Groves.</li>
  273. <li><a href="ratio/index.html">ratio</a> - Compile time rational arithmetic,
  274. from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  275. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  276. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  277. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  278. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  279. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  280. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  281. library, from John Maddock.</li>
  282. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
  283. <li><a href="scope_exit/index.html">scope_exit</a> -
  284. Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov and Lorenzo Caminiti.</li>
  285. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a>
  286. - Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  287. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> <em>(deprecated)</em> - managed signals &amp;
  288. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  289. <li><a href="signals2/index.html">signals2</a> - managed signals &amp;
  290. slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.</li>
  291. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Six smart
  292. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  293. Peter Dimov, Darin Adler, and Glen Fernandes.</li>
  294. <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
  295. complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
  296. maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
  297. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  298. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  299. Maddock.</li>
  300. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  301. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  302. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  303. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  304. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba.</li>
  305. <li><a href="utility/swap.html">swap</a> -
  306. Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.</li>
  307. <li><a href="system/doc/index.html">system</a> - Operating system support,
  308. including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard
  309. library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
  310. <li><a href="test/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  311. full unit testing, and for program
  312. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  313. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  314. multi-threading, from William Kempf, Anthony Williams and
  315. Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  316. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  317. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  318. Dawes.</li>
  319. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  320. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  321. <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
  322. Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
  323. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  324. <li><a href="tti/index.html">tti</a> - Type Traits Introspection library, from Edward Diener</li>
  325. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  326. from Jaakko J&auml;rvi.</li>
  327. <li><a href="type_erasure/index.html">type_erasure</a> -
  328. Runtime polymorphism based on concepts, from Steven Watanabe.</li>
  329. <li><a href="type_index/index.html">type_index</a> -
  330. Runtime/Compile time copyable type info, from Antony Polukhin.</li>
  331. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  332. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  333. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  334. <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
  335. Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
  336. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  337. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  338. <li><a href="units/index.html">units</a> -
  339. Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity
  340. manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li>
  341. <li><a href="../doc/html/unordered.html">unordered</a> - unordered associative containers, from Daniel James.</li>
  342. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  343. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  344. <b>prior()</b>
  345. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
  346. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  347. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  348. <li><a href="uuid/index.html">uuid</a> - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.</li>
  349. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union
  350. container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  351. <li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> - Standards conformant
  352. implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser </li>
  353. <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
  354. and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  355. </ul>
  356. <hr>
  357. <h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
  358. <h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
  359. <ul>
  360. <li><a href="algorithm/index.html">algorithm</a> - A collection of useful generic
  361. algorithms, from Marshall Clow.&nbsp;</li>
  362. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  363. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  364. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  365. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  366. <li><a href="geometry/index.html">geometry</a> - Geometry Library, from
  367. Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande and Mateusz Loskot.</li>
  368. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  369. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  370. and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li>
  371. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  372. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  373. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  374. <li><a href="polygon/index.html">polygon</a> - Voronoi diagram construction
  375. and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons
  376. with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson, Andrii Sydorchuk.</li>
  377. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  378. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  379. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  380. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  381. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  382. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b>&nbsp; <b>prior()</b>
  383. function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  384. </ul>
  385. <h3>Broken Compiler <a name="workarounds">Workarounds</a></h3>
  386. <ul>
  387. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  388. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  389. Maurer.</li>
  390. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  391. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  392. intended for library users.</li>
  393. </ul>
  394. <h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
  395. <ul>
  396. <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level
  397. I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
  398. ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
  399. <li><a href="atomic/index.html">atomic</a> - C++11-style atomic<>, from Helge Bahmann, maintained by Tim Blechmann</li>
  400. <li><a href="context/index.html">context</a> - Context switching library, from Oliver Kowalke</li>
  401. <li><a href="coroutine/index.html">coroutine</a> - Coroutine library, from Oliver Kowalke</li>
  402. <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess</a> - Shared memory, memory mapped files,
  403. process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  404. <li><a href="lockfree/index.html">lockfree</a> - Lockfree data structures, from Tim Blechmann</li>
  405. <li><a href="../doc/html/mpi.html">MPI</a> - Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming, from Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer.</li>
  406. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  407. multi-threading, from William Kempf, Anthony Williams and
  408. Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  409. </ul>
  410. <h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
  411. <ul>
  412. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  413. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  414. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  415. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  416. </li>
  417. <li><a href="circular_buffer/index.html">circular_buffer</a> - STL compliant
  418. container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.</li>
  419. <li><a href="container/index.html">container</a> - Standard library containers and extensions, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  420. <li><a href="dynamic_bitset/dynamic_bitset.html">dynamic_bitset</a> - A runtime sized version of <tt>std::bitset</tt> from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison.</li>
  421. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  422. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  423. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  424. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  425. and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li>
  426. <li><a href="icl/index.html">icl</a> -
  427. Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation
  428. of associated values, from Joachim Faulhaber.</li>
  429. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive</a> - Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  430. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  431. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  432. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  433. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  434. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  435. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  436. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  437. <li><a href="property_map/doc/property_map.html">property map</a>
  438. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  439. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  440. <li><a href="property_tree/index.html">property tree</a> - A tree data
  441. structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin
  442. Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.</li>
  443. <li><a href="../doc/html/unordered.html">unordered</a> - unordered associative containers, from Daniel James.</li>
  444. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  445. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  446. </ul>
  447. <h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
  448. <ul>
  449. <li><a href="assert/assert.html">assert</a> - Customizable assert macros, from Peter Dimov.</li>
  450. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  451. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  452. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  453. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  454. Maddock.</li>
  455. <li><a href="test/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  456. full unit testing, and for program
  457. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  458. </ul>
  459. <h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
  460. <ul>
  461. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  462. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  463. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  464. </li>
  465. <li><a href="container/index.html">container</a> - Standard library containers and extensions, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  466. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  467. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  468. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  469. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  470. Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
  471. From Joel de Guzman and Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
  472. <li><a href="icl/index.html">icl</a> -
  473. Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation
  474. of associated values, from Joachim Faulhaber.</li>
  475. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive</a> - Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  476. <li><a href="heap/index.html">heap</a> -
  477. Priority queue data structures, from Tim Blechmann</li>
  478. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  479. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  480. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  481. <li><a href="optional/doc/html/index.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  482. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  483. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  484. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  485. <li><a href="polygon/index.html">polygon</a> - Voronoi diagram construction
  486. and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons
  487. with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson, Andrii Sydorchuk.</li>
  488. <li><a href="property_tree/index.html">property tree</a> - A tree data
  489. structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin
  490. Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.</li>
  491. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  492. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  493. from Jaakko J&auml;rvi.</li>
  494. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  495. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  496. <li><a href="type_erasure/index.html">type_erasure</a> -
  497. Runtime polymorphism based on concepts, from Steven Watanabe.</li>
  498. </ul>
  499. <h3><a name="Domain">Domain Specific</a></h3>
  500. <ul>
  501. <li><a href="chrono/index.html">chrono</a> - Useful time utilities,
  502. from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  503. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  504. Walker.</li>
  505. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  506. <li><a href="units/index.html">units</a> -
  507. Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity
  508. manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li>
  509. <li><a href="uuid/index.html">uuid</a> - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.</li>
  510. </ul>
  511. <h3><a name="Function-objects">Function Objects</a> and Higher-order Programming</h3>
  512. <ul>
  513. <li><a href="bind/bind.html">bind</a> and <a href="bind/mem_fn.html"> mem_fn</a> - Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions, from Peter Dimov.</li>
  514. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  515. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  516. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  517. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  518. <li><a href="functional/factory/index.html">functional/factory</a> -
  519. function object templates for dynamic and static object creation,
  520. from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  521. <li><a href="functional/forward/index.html">functional/forward</a> -
  522. adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary
  523. arguments, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  524. <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
  525. A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
  526. types, from Daniel James.</li>
  527. <li><a href="functional/overloaded_function/index.html">functional/overloaded_function</a> -
  528. Overload different functions into a single function object, from Lorenzo Caminiti.</li>
  529. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  530. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko J&auml;rvi and
  531. Gary Powell.</li>
  532. <li><a href="local_function/index.html">local_function</a> -
  533. Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed, from Lorenzo Caminiti.</li>
  534. <li><a href="phoenix/index.html">Phoenix</a> - Define small unnamed
  535. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Joel de Guzman, Dan
  536. Marsden and Thomas Heller</li>
  537. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  538. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  539. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  540. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> <em>(deprecated)</em> - managed signals &amp;
  541. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  542. <li><a href="signals2/index.html">signals2</a> - managed signals &amp;
  543. slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.</li>
  544. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
  545. </ul>
  546. <h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3>
  547. <ul>
  548. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  549. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  550. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  551. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  552. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  553. <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> -
  554. Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko
  555. J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
  556. <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits
  557. for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  558. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  559. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  560. <li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction
  561. of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  562. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  563. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  564. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  565. <li><a href="property_map/doc/property_map.html">property map</a>
  566. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  567. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  568. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  569. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  570. Maddock.</li>
  571. <li><a href="tti/index.html">tti</a> - Type Traits Introspection library, from Edward Diener</li>
  572. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  573. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  574. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  575. </ul>
  576. <h3><a name="Image-processing">Image Processing</a></h3>
  577. <ul>
  578. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  579. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  580. </ul>
  581. <h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
  582. <ul>
  583. <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level
  584. I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
  585. ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
  586. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  587. with constant or generated data has never been
  588. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  589. </li>
  590. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  591. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  592. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  593. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  594. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  595. <li><a href="locale/index.html">locale</a> - Provide localization and Unicode
  596. handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis</li>
  597. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  598. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  599. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization
  600. of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  601. </ul>
  602. <h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> Support</h3>
  603. <ul>
  604. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  605. classes and functions into <a
  606. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  607. Abrahams.</li>
  608. </ul>
  609. <h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
  610. <ul>
  611. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  612. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  613. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  614. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  615. and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li>
  616. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterator</a> - Iterator
  617. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  618. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  619. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  620. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  621. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  622. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  623. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  624. </ul>
  625. <h3><a name="LanguageFeatureEmulation">Language Features Emulation</a></h3>
  626. <ul>
  627. <li><a href="exception/doc/boost-exception.html">exception</a> - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2179.html">N2179</a>), from Emil Dotchevski.</li>
  628. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  629. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  630. <li><a href="move/index.html">move</a> - Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++1 compilers, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  631. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  632. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  633. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  634. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  635. <li><a href="scope_exit/index.html">scope_exit</a> -
  636. Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov and Lorenzo Caminiti.</li>
  637. <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
  638. Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
  639. <li><a href="type_index/index.html">type_index</a> - Runtime/Compile time copyable type info,
  640. from Antony Polukhin.</li>
  641. </ul>
  642. <h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
  643. <ul>
  644. <li><a href="align/index.html">align</a> - Memory alignment functions,
  645. allocators, and adaptors, from Glen Fernandes.</li>
  646. <li><a href="pool/doc/html/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  647. Steve Cleary.</li>
  648. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Six smart
  649. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  650. Peter Dimov, Darin Adler, and Glen Fernandes.</li>
  651. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  652. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  653. <b>prior()</b>
  654. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  655. </ul>
  656. <h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and Numerics</h3>
  657. <ul>
  658. <li><a href="accumulators/index.html">accumulators</a> - Framework for incremental
  659. calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  660. <li><a href="geometry/index.html">geometry</a> - Geometry Library, from
  661. Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande and Mateusz Loskot.</li>
  662. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  663. dealing with integral types.</li>
  664. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval</a> - Extends the
  665. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  666. Melquiond, Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  667. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  668. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  669. <li><a href="math/doc/html/inverse_complex.html">math/complex number algorithms</a> -
  670. These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.</li>
  671. <li><a href="math/doc/html/gcd_lcm.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  672. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  673. <li><a href="math/doc/html/octonions.html">math/octonion</a> -
  674. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  675. <li><a href="math/doc/html/quaternions.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  676. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  677. <li><a href="math/doc/html/special.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  678. A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.</li>
  679. <li><a href="math/doc/html/dist.html">math/statistical distributions</a> -
  680. A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow</li>
  681. <li><a href="math/doc/html/constants.html">math/constants</a> - A wide range of numberic constants from John Maddock and Paul Bristow.</li>
  682. <li><a href="math/doc/html/utils.html">math/floating point utilities</a> - Floating point manipulation utilities from Johan Rade.</li>
  683. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  684. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  685. <li><a href="multiprecision/index.html">multiprecision</a> - Extended precision arithmetic types
  686. for floating point, integer and rational arithmetic from John Maddock and Christopher Kormanyos.</li>
  687. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  688. from Fernando </li>
  689. <li><a href="numeric/odeint/index.html">odeint</a> - Solving ordinary differential equations, from Karsten Ahnert and Mario Mulansky.</li>
  690. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  691. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  692. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  693. <li><a href="polygon/index.html">polygon</a> - Voronoi diagram construction
  694. and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons
  695. with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson, Andrii Sydorchuk.</li>
  696. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  697. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  698. <li><a href="ratio/index.html">ratio</a> - A compile time ratio arithmetic,
  699. from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  700. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  701. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  702. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  703. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  704. </ul>
  705. <h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
  706. <ul>
  707. <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits
  708. for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  709. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  710. Library for working with tuples, including various containers,
  711. algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
  712. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  713. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  714. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  715. <li><a href="proto/index.html">proto</a> - Expression template library and compiler
  716. construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  717. <li><a href="ratio/index.html">ratio</a> - A compile time ratio arithmetic,
  718. from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  719. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  720. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  721. Maddock.</li>
  722. <li><a href="tti/index.html">tti</a> - Type Traits Introspection library, from Edward Diener</li>
  723. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  724. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  725. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  726. </ul>
  727. <h3><a name="PatternsIdioms">Patterns and Idioms</a></h3>
  728. <ul>
  729. <li><a href="flyweight/doc/index.html">flyweight</a> - Design pattern
  730. to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects,
  731. from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  732. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> <em>(deprecated)</em> - managed signals &amp;
  733. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  734. <li><a href="signals2/index.html">signals2</a> - managed signals &amp;
  735. slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.</li>
  736. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
  737. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  738. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  739. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  740. </ul>
  741. <h3><a name="StateMachines">State Machines</a></h3>
  742. <ul>
  743. <li><a href="msm/index.html">meta state machine</a> - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.</li>
  744. <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
  745. complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
  746. maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
  747. </ul>
  748. <h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
  749. <ul>
  750. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  751. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  752. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  753. </ul>
  754. <h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
  755. <ul>
  756. <li><a href="utility/identity_type/index.html">identity_type</a> -
  757. Wrap types within round parenthesis so they can always be passed as macro parameters, from Lorenzo Caminiti.</li>
  758. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  759. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  760. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  761. </ul>
  762. <h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3>
  763. <ul>
  764. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  765. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  766. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  767. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  768. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  769. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  770. </ul>
  771. <h3><a name="String">String</a> and Text Processing</h3>
  772. <ul>
  773. <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
  774. class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  775. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  776. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  777. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  778. <li><a href="locale/index.html">locale</a> - Provide localization and Unicode
  779. handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis</li>
  780. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  781. library, from John Maddock</li>
  782. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  783. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  784. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  785. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  786. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  787. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  788. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
  789. <li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> - Standards conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser.</li>
  790. <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
  791. and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  792. </ul>
  793. <h3><a name="SystemC">System</a></h3>
  794. <ul>
  795. <li><a href="chrono/index.html">chrono</a> - Useful time utilities,
  796. from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  797. <li><a href="context/index.html">context</a> - Context switching library, from Oliver Kowalke</li>
  798. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  799. <li><a href="filesystem/index.html">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  800. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  801. Beman Dawes.</li>
  802. <li><a href="system/doc/index.html">system</a> - Operating system support,
  803. including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard
  804. library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
  805. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  806. multi-threading, from William Kempf, Anthony Williams and
  807. Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;.</li>
  808. </ul>
  809. <h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
  810. <ul>
  811. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  812. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  813. <li><a href="core/index.html">core</a> - A collection of core utilities, maintained by Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes, and Andrey Semashev.</li>
  814. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  815. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  816. <li><a href="predef/index.html">Predef</a> - This library defines a set of
  817. compiler, architecture, operating system, library, and other version
  818. numbers from the information it can gather of C, C++, Objective C, and
  819. Objective C++ predefined macros or those defined in generally available
  820. headers, from Rene Rivera.</li>
  821. <li><a href="utility/swap.html">swap</a> -
  822. Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.</li>
  823. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  824. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  825. Dawes.</li>
  826. <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
  827. Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
  828. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  829. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  830. <b>prior()</b>
  831. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  832. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  833. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  834. </ul>
  835. <p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escrib&aacute;]</p>
  836. <hr>
  837. <h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2>
  838. <ul>
  839. <li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL,
  840. from Nicolai Josuttis. Removed in Boost version 1.32.
  841. Please use <a href="bind/bind.html">Bind</a> or <a
  842. href="lambda/index.html">Lambda</a> instead.</li>
  843. </ul>
  844. <hr>
  845. <p>Revised
  846. <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
  847. s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->03 Nov 2009<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="15274" --></p>
  848. <p>&copy; Copyright Beman Dawes 2000-2004</p>
  849. <p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
  850. (See file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
  851. or <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
  852. </p>
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