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  28. <h1>Boost Libraries and Documentation</h1>
  29. <p>
  30. <dl>
  31. <dt><a href="#Alphabetically">Libraries Listed Alphabetically</a></dt>
  32. <dt><a href="#Category">Libraries Listed by Category</a></dt>
  33. <dl>
  34. <dt><a href="#String">String and text processing</a></dt>
  35. <dt><a href="#Containers">Containers</a></dt>
  36. <dt><a href="#Iterators">Iterators</a></dt>
  37. <dt><a href="#Algorithms">Algorithms</a></dt>
  38. <dt><a href="#Function-objects">Function Objects and higher-order programming</a></dt>
  39. <dt><a href="#Generic">Generic Programming</a></dt>
  40. <dt><a href="#Metaprogramming">Template Metaprogramming</a></dt>
  41. <dt><a href="#Preprocessor">Preprocessor Metaprogramming</a></dt>
  42. <dt><a href="#Concurrent">Concurrent Programming</a>
  43. <dt><a href="#Math">Math and numerics</a></dt>
  44. <dt><a href="#Correctness">Correctness and testing</a></dt>
  45. <dt><a href="#Data">Data structures</a></dt>
  46. <dt><a href="#IO">Input/Output</a><a href="#Memory"></a></dt>
  47. <dt><a href="#Inter-language">Inter-language support</a></dt>
  48. <dt><a href="#Memory">Memory</a></dt>
  49. <dt><a href="#Parsing">Parsing</a></dt>
  50. <dt><a href="#Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></dt>
  51. <dt><a href="#Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></dt>
  52. <dt><a href="#workarounds">Broken compiler workarounds</a></dt>
  53. </dl>
  54. <dt><a href="#Removed">Libraries Retired from Boost</a></dt>
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  57. <p>See <a href="../status/compiler_status.html">Compiler Status</a>
  58. page to find out what library works with which compiler.<br>
  59. See <a href="../more/getting_started.html">Getting Started</a> page to find out
  60. how to download, build, and install the libraries.</p>
  61. <p>Documentation for some Boost libraries is available in other forms,
  62. including DocBook, XSL Formatting Objects, and Unix man pages. This
  63. documentation is <a
  64. href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=159715">available
  65. on Sourceforge.</a></p>
  66. <hr>
  67. <h2>Libraries Listed <a name="Alphabetically">Alphabetically</a></h2>
  68. <ul>
  69. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  70. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.&nbsp;</li>
  71. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  72. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  73. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  74. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  75. with constant or generated data has never been
  76. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  77. </li>
  78. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  79. </li>
  80. <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
  81. Dimov.</li>
  82. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  83. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  84. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  85. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  86. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  87. Maurer.</li>
  88. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  89. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  90. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  91. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  92. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  93. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  94. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  95. intended for library users.</li>
  96. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  97. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  98. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  99. Walker.</li>
  100. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  101. <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>
  102. <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>
  103. <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  104. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  105. Beman Dawes.</li>
  106. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  107. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  108. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  109. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  110. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  111. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  112. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  113. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  114. <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
  115. A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
  116. types, from Daniel James.</li>
  117. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  118. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  119. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  120. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  121. dealing with integral types.</li>
  122. <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess </a>- Shared memory, memory mapped files,
  123. process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  124. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
  125. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  126. Melquiond, Herv&acute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  127. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive </a>- Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  128. <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>
  129. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  130. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  131. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  132. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
  133. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  134. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  135. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  136. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko J?rvi and
  137. Gary Powell.</li>
  138. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  139. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  140. <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  141. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  142. <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/octonions.html">math/octonion</a> -
  143. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  144. <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/quaternions.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  145. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  146. <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/math_special_functions.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  147. Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
  148. from Hubert Holin.</li>
  149. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  150. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  151. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  152. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  153. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  154. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  155. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  156. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  157. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  158. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  159. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  160. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  161. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  162. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  163. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  164. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  165. <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  166. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  167. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  168. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  169. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  170. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  171. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  172. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease
  173. OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  174. <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  175. Steve Cleary.</li>
  176. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  177. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  178. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  179. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  180. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  181. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  182. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  183. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  184. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  185. classes and functions into <a
  186. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  187. Abrahams.</li>
  188. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  189. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  190. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  191. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  192. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  193. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  194. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  195. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  196. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  197. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  198. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  199. library, from John Maddock.</li>
  200. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a>
  201. - Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  202. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
  203. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  204. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
  205. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  206. Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
  207. <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
  208. complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
  209. maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
  210. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  211. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  212. Maddock.</li>
  213. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  214. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  215. Guzman and team.</li>
  216. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  217. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  218. <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  219. full unit testing, and for program
  220. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  221. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  222. multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
  223. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  224. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  225. Dawes.</li>
  226. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  227. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  228. <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
  229. Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
  230. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  231. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  232. from Jaakko J?rvi.</li>
  233. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  234. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  235. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  236. <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
  237. Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
  238. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  239. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  240. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  241. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  242. <b>prior()</b>
  243. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
  244. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  245. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  246. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union
  247. container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  248. <li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> - Standards conformant
  249. implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser </li>
  250. <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
  251. and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  252. </ul>
  253. <hr>
  254. <h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
  255. <h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
  256. <ul>
  257. <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
  258. class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  259. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  260. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  261. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  262. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  263. library, from John Maddock</li>
  264. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  265. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  266. Guzman and team.</li>
  267. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  268. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  269. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  270. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
  271. <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>
  272. <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
  273. and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  274. </ul>
  275. <h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
  276. <ul>
  277. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  278. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  279. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  280. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  281. </li>
  282. <li><a href="circular_buffer/index.html">circular_buffer</a> - STL compliant
  283. container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.</li>
  284. <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>
  285. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  286. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  287. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  288. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive </a>- Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  289. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  290. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  291. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  292. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  293. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  294. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  295. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  296. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  297. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  298. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  299. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  300. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  301. </ul>
  302. <h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
  303. <ul>
  304. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  305. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  306. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  307. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
  308. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  309. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  310. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  311. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  312. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  313. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  314. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  315. </ul>
  316. <h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
  317. <ul>
  318. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  319. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  320. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  321. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  322. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  323. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  324. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  325. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  326. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  327. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  328. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b>&nbsp; <b>prior()</b>
  329. function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  330. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  331. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  332. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  333. </ul>
  334. <h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3>
  335. <ul>
  336. <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>
  337. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  338. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  339. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  340. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  341. <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
  342. A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
  343. types, from Daniel James.</li>
  344. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  345. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko J?rvi and
  346. Gary Powell.</li>
  347. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  348. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  349. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  350. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
  351. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  352. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
  353. </ul>
  354. <h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3>
  355. <ul>
  356. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  357. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  358. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  359. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  360. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  361. <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> -
  362. Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko
  363. J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
  364. <li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction
  365. of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  366. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  367. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  368. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  369. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  370. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  371. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  372. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  373. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  374. Maddock.</li>
  375. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  376. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  377. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  378. </ul>
  379. <h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
  380. <ul>
  381. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  382. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  383. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  384. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  385. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  386. Maddock.</li>
  387. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  388. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  389. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  390. </ul>
  391. <h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
  392. <ul>
  393. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  394. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  395. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  396. </ul>
  397. <h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
  398. <ul>
  399. <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess </a>- Shared memory, memory mapped files,
  400. process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  401. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  402. multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
  403. </ul>
  404. <h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
  405. <ul>
  406. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  407. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  408. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  409. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  410. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  411. dealing with integral types.</li>
  412. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
  413. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  414. Melquiond, Herv? Br?nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  415. <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  416. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  417. <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/octonions.html">math/octonion</a> -
  418. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  419. <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/quaternions.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  420. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  421. <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/math_special_functions.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  422. Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
  423. from Hubert Holin.</li>
  424. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  425. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  426. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  427. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  428. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  429. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  430. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  431. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  432. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  433. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  434. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  435. </ul>
  436. <h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
  437. <ul>
  438. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  439. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  440. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  441. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  442. Maddock.</li>
  443. <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  444. full unit testing, and for program
  445. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  446. </ul>
  447. <h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
  448. <ul>
  449. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  450. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  451. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  452. </li>
  453. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  454. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  455. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  456. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  457. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  458. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  459. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  460. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  461. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  462. from Jaakko J?rvi.</li>
  463. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  464. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  465. </ul>
  466. <h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
  467. <ul>
  468. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  469. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  470. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  471. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  472. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  473. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  474. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  475. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization
  476. of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  477. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  478. with constant or generated data has never been
  479. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  480. </li>
  481. </ul>
  482. <h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3>
  483. <ul>
  484. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  485. classes and functions into <a
  486. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  487. Abrahams.</li>
  488. </ul>
  489. <h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
  490. <ul>
  491. <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  492. Steve Cleary.</li>
  493. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
  494. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  495. Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
  496. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  497. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  498. <b>prior()</b>
  499. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  500. </ul>
  501. <h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
  502. <ul>
  503. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  504. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  505. Guzman and team.</li>
  506. </ul>
  507. <h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3>
  508. <ul>
  509. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  510. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  511. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  512. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  513. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  514. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  515. </ul>
  516. <h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
  517. <ul>
  518. <li><a href="utility/base_from_member.html">base-from-member</a> - Idiom to
  519. initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  520. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  521. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  522. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  523. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  524. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  525. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  526. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  527. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  528. Walker.</li>
  529. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  530. <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  531. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  532. Beman Dawes.</li>
  533. <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  534. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  535. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  536. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  537. <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
  538. complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
  539. maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
  540. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  541. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  542. Dawes.</li>
  543. <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
  544. Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
  545. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  546. <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
  547. Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
  548. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  549. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  550. <b>prior()</b>
  551. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  552. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  553. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  554. </ul>
  555. <h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3>
  556. <ul>
  557. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  558. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  559. Maurer.</li>
  560. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  561. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  562. intended for library users.</li>
  563. </ul>
  564. <p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy and Beman Dawes]</p>
  565. <hr>
  566. <h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2>
  567. <ul>
  568. <li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL,
  569. from Nicolai Josuttis. Removed in Boost version 1.32.
  570. Please use <a href="bind/bind.html">Bind</a> or <a
  571. href="lambda/index.html">Lambda</a> instead.</li>
  572. </ul>
  573. <hr>
  574. <p>Revised
  575. <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
  576. s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->12 Mar 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="14901" --></p>
  577. <p>? Copyright Beman Dawes 2000-2004</p>
  578. <p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
  579. (See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
  580. or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
  581. </p>
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