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