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