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