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  28. <h1>Boost Libraries and Documentation</h1>
  29. <p>
  30. <a href="#Alphabetically">Libraries Listed Alphabetically</a><br>
  31. <a href="#Category">Libraries Listed by Category<br>
  32. </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#String">String and text processing<br>
  33. </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Containers">Containers<br>
  34. </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Iterators">Iterators<br>
  35. </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Algorithms">Algorithms<br>
  36. </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Function-objects">Function Objects and
  37. higher-order programming<br>
  38. </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Generic">Generic Programming</a><br>
  39. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Generic">Template
  40. Metaprogramming</a><br>
  41. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Preprocessor">Preprocessor Metaprogramming</a><a href="#Generic"><br>
  42. </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Concurrent">Concurrent Programming</a><br>
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  47. </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Inter-language">Inter-language support</a><br>
  48. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Memory">Memory</a><br>
  49. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Parsing">Parsing</a><br>
  50. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a><br>
  51. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#workarounds">Broken compiler workarounds</a><br>
  52. <a href="#Removed">Libraries Retired from Boost<br>
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  57. how to download, build, and install the libraries.</p>
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  66. <li><a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/boost-doc-man.tar.gz" target="_top">Unix man pages</a></li>
  67. <li><a href="../doc/boost.docbook" target="_top">DocBook</a></li>
  68. <li><a href="../doc/boost.fo" target="_top">XSL Formatting Objects</a></li>
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  70. <hr>
  71. <h2>Libraries Listed <a name="Alphabetically">Alphabetically</a></h2>
  72. <ul>
  73. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  74. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.&nbsp;</li>
  75. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  76. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  77. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  78. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  79. with constant or generated data has never been
  80. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  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="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  88. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  89. Maurer.</li>
  90. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  91. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  92. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  93. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  94. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  95. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  96. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  97. intended for library users.</li>
  98. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Numeric,
  99. polymorphic, and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  100. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  101. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  102. Walker.</li>
  103. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  104. <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>
  105. <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>
  106. <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  107. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  108. Beman Dawes.</li>
  109. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  110. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  111. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  112. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  113. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  114. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  115. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  116. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  117. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  118. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  119. dealing with integral types.</li>
  120. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
  121. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  122. Melquiond, Herv&acute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  123. <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>
  124. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  125. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  126. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
  127. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  128. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  129. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  130. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and
  131. Gary Powell.</li>
  132. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  133. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  134. <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  135. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  136. <li><a href="math/octonion/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
  137. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  138. <li><a href="math/quaternion/index.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  139. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  140. <li><a href="math/special_functions/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  141. Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
  142. from Hubert Holin.</li>
  143. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  144. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  145. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  146. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  147. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  148. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  149. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  150. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  151. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  152. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  153. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  154. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  155. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  156. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  157. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  158. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  159. <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  160. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  161. <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  162. Steve Cleary.</li>
  163. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  164. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  165. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  166. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  167. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  168. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  169. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  170. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  171. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  172. classes and functions into <a
  173. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  174. Abrahams.</li>
  175. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  176. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  177. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  178. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  179. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  180. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  181. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  182. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  183. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  184. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  185. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  186. library, from John Maddock.</li>
  187. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a>
  188. - Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  189. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
  190. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  191. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
  192. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  193. Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
  194. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  195. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  196. Maddock.</li>
  197. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  198. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  199. Guzman and team.</li>
  200. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  201. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  202. <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  203. full unit testing, and for program
  204. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  205. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  206. multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
  207. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  208. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  209. Dawes.</li>
  210. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  211. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  212. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  213. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  214. from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
  215. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  216. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  217. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  218. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  219. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  220. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  221. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  222. <b>prior()</b>
  223. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
  224. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  225. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  226. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union
  227. container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  228. </ul>
  229. <hr>
  230. <h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
  231. <h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
  232. <ul>
  233. <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
  234. class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  235. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  236. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  237. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  238. library, from John Maddock</li>
  239. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  240. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  241. Guzman and team.</li>
  242. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  243. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  244. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  245. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  246. </ul>
  247. <h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
  248. <ul>
  249. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  250. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  251. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  252. <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>
  253. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  254. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  255. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  256. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  257. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  258. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  259. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  260. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  261. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  262. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  263. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  264. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  265. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  266. </ul>
  267. <h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
  268. <ul>
  269. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  270. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  271. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  272. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
  273. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  274. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  275. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  276. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  277. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  278. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  279. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  280. </ul>
  281. <h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
  282. <ul>
  283. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  284. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  285. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  286. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  287. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  288. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  289. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  290. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  291. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b>&nbsp; <b>prior()</b>
  292. function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  293. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  294. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  295. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  296. </ul>
  297. <h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3>
  298. <ul>
  299. <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>
  300. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  301. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  302. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  303. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  304. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  305. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and
  306. Gary Powell.</li>
  307. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  308. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  309. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  310. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
  311. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  312. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
  313. </ul>
  314. <h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3>
  315. <ul>
  316. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  317. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  318. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  319. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  320. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  321. <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> -
  322. Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko
  323. J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
  324. <li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction
  325. of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  326. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  327. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  328. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  329. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  330. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  331. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  332. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  333. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  334. Maddock.</li>
  335. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  336. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  337. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  338. </ul>
  339. <h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
  340. <ul>
  341. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  342. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  343. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  344. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  345. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  346. Maddock.</li>
  347. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  348. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  349. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  350. </ul>
  351. <h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
  352. <ul>
  353. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  354. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  355. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  356. </ul>
  357. <h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
  358. <ul>
  359. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  360. multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
  361. </ul>
  362. <h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
  363. <ul>
  364. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  365. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  366. <li><a href="conversion/cast.htm">conversion/numeric_cast</a> - <tt>numeric_cast</tt>
  367. class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  368. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  369. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  370. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  371. dealing with integral types.</li>
  372. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
  373. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  374. Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  375. <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  376. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  377. <li><a href="math/octonion/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
  378. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  379. <li><a href="math/quaternion/index.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  380. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  381. <li><a href="math/special_functions/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  382. Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
  383. from Hubert Holin.</li>
  384. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  385. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  386. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  387. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  388. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  389. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  390. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  391. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  392. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  393. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  394. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  395. </ul>
  396. <h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
  397. <ul>
  398. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  399. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  400. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  401. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  402. Maddock.</li>
  403. <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  404. full unit testing, and for program
  405. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  406. </ul>
  407. <h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
  408. <ul>
  409. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  410. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  411. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  412. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  413. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  414. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  415. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  416. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  417. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  418. from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
  419. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  420. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  421. </ul>
  422. <h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
  423. <ul>
  424. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  425. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  426. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  427. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  428. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  429. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  430. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization
  431. of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  432. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  433. with constant or generated data has never been
  434. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  435. </li>
  436. </ul>
  437. <h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3>
  438. <ul>
  439. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  440. classes and functions into <a
  441. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  442. Abrahams.</li>
  443. </ul>
  444. <h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
  445. <ul>
  446. <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  447. Steve Cleary.</li>
  448. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
  449. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  450. Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
  451. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  452. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  453. <b>prior()</b>
  454. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  455. </ul>
  456. <h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
  457. <ul>
  458. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  459. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  460. Guzman and team.</li>
  461. </ul>
  462. <h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
  463. <ul>
  464. <li><a href="utility/base_from_member.html">base-from-member</a> - Idiom to
  465. initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</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="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Numeric,
  470. polymorphic, and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  471. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  472. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  473. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  474. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  475. Walker.</li>
  476. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  477. <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  478. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  479. Beman Dawes.</li>
  480. <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  481. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  482. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  483. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  484. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  485. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  486. Dawes.</li>
  487. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  488. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  489. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  490. <b>prior()</b>
  491. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  492. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  493. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  494. </ul>
  495. <h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3>
  496. <ul>
  497. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  498. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  499. Maurer.</li>
  500. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  501. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  502. intended for library users.</li>
  503. </ul>
  504. <p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy and Beman Dawes]</p>
  505. <hr>
  506. <h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2>
  507. <ul>
  508. <li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL,
  509. from Nicolai Josuttis. Removed in Boost version 1.32.
  510. Please use <a href="bind/bind.html">Bind</a> or <a
  511. href="lambda/index.html">Lambda</a> instead.</li>
  512. </ul>
  513. <hr>
  514. <p>Revised
  515. <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
  516. s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->07 October 2004<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="14890" --></p>
  517. <p>© Copyright Beman Dawes 2000-2004</p>
  518. <p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
  519. (See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
  520. or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
  521. </p>
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