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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="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  74. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.&nbsp;</li>
  75. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  76. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  77. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  78. <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level
  79. I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
  80. ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
  81. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  82. with constant or generated data has never been
  83. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  84. </li>
  85. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  86. </li>
  87. <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
  88. Dimov.</li>
  89. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  90. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  91. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  92. <li><a href="circular_buffer/index.html">circular_buffer</a> - STL compliant
  93. container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.</li>
  94. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  95. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  96. Maurer.</li>
  97. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  98. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  99. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  100. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  101. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  102. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  103. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  104. intended for library users.</li>
  105. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  106. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  107. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  108. Walker.</li>
  109. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  110. <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>
  111. <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>
  112. <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>
  113. <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  114. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  115. Beman Dawes.</li>
  116. <li><a href="flyweight/doc/index.html">flyweight</a> - Design pattern
  117. to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects,
  118. from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  119. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  120. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  121. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  122. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  123. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  124. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  125. <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits
  126. for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  127. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  128. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  129. <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
  130. A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
  131. types, from Daniel James.</li>
  132. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  133. Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
  134. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
  135. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  136. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  137. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  138. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  139. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  140. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  141. dealing with integral types.</li>
  142. <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess </a>- Shared memory, memory mapped files,
  143. process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  144. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
  145. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  146. Melquiond, Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  147. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive </a>- Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  148. <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>
  149. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  150. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  151. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  152. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
  153. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  154. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  155. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  156. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko J?rvi and
  157. Gary Powell.</li>
  158. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  159. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  160. <li><a href="math/doc/complex/html/index.html">math/complex number algorithms</a> -
  161. These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.</li>
  162. <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  163. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  164. <li><a href="math/doc/octonion/html/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
  165. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  166. <li><a href="math/doc/quaternion/html/index.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  167. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  168. <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  169. A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.</li>
  170. <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/statistical distributions</a> -
  171. A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow</li>
  172. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  173. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  174. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  175. <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>
  176. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  177. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  178. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  179. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  180. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  181. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  182. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  183. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  184. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  185. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  186. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  187. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  188. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  189. <li><a href="optional/doc/html/index.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  190. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  191. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  192. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  193. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  194. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  195. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  196. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease
  197. OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  198. <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  199. Steve Cleary.</li>
  200. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  201. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  202. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  203. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  204. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  205. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  206. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  207. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  208. <li><a href="proto/index.html">proto</a> - Expression template library and compiler
  209. construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  210. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  211. classes and functions into <a
  212. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  213. Abrahams.</li>
  214. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  215. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  216. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  217. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  218. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  219. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  220. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  221. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  222. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  223. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  224. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  225. library, from John Maddock.</li>
  226. <li><a href="scope_exit/doc/html/index.html">scope_exit</a>
  227. - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov.</li>
  228. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a>
  229. - Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  230. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
  231. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  232. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
  233. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  234. Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
  235. <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
  236. complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
  237. maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
  238. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  239. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  240. Maddock.</li>
  241. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  242. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  243. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  244. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  245. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba.</li>
  246. <li><a href="utility/swap.html">swap</a> -
  247. Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.</li>
  248. <li><a href="system/doc/index.html">system</a> - Operating system support,
  249. including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard
  250. library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
  251. <li><a href="test/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  252. full unit testing, and for program
  253. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  254. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  255. multi-threading, from William Kempf and Anthony Williams.</li>
  256. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  257. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  258. Dawes.</li>
  259. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  260. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  261. <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
  262. Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
  263. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  264. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  265. from Jaakko J?rvi.</li>
  266. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  267. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  268. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  269. <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
  270. Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
  271. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  272. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  273. <li><a href="units/index.html">units</a> -
  274. Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity
  275. manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li>
  276. <li><a href="../doc/html/unordered.html">unordered</a> - unordered associative containers, from Daniel James.</li>
  277. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  278. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  279. <b>prior()</b>
  280. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
  281. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  282. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  283. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union
  284. container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  285. <li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> - Standards conformant
  286. implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser </li>
  287. <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
  288. and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  289. </ul>
  290. <hr>
  291. <h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
  292. <h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
  293. <ul>
  294. <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
  295. class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  296. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  297. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  298. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  299. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  300. library, from John Maddock</li>
  301. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  302. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  303. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  304. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  305. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  306. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  307. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
  308. <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>
  309. <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
  310. and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  311. </ul>
  312. <h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
  313. <ul>
  314. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  315. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  316. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  317. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  318. </li>
  319. <li><a href="circular_buffer/index.html">circular_buffer</a> - STL compliant
  320. container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.</li>
  321. <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>
  322. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  323. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  324. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  325. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  326. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  327. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive </a>- Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  328. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  329. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  330. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  331. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  332. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  333. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  334. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  335. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  336. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  337. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  338. <li><a href="../doc/html/unordered.html">unordered</a> - unordered associative containers, from Daniel James.</li>
  339. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  340. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  341. </ul>
  342. <h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
  343. <ul>
  344. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  345. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  346. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  347. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  348. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  349. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
  350. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  351. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  352. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  353. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  354. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  355. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  356. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  357. </ul>
  358. <h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
  359. <ul>
  360. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  361. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  362. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  363. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  364. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  365. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  366. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  367. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  368. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  369. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  370. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  371. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  372. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  373. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  374. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  375. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b>&nbsp; <b>prior()</b>
  376. function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  377. </ul>
  378. <h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3>
  379. <ul>
  380. <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>
  381. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  382. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  383. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  384. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  385. <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
  386. A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
  387. types, from Daniel James.</li>
  388. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  389. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko J?rvi and
  390. Gary Powell.</li>
  391. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  392. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  393. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  394. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
  395. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  396. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
  397. </ul>
  398. <h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3>
  399. <ul>
  400. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  401. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  402. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  403. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  404. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  405. <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> -
  406. Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko
  407. J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
  408. <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits
  409. for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  410. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  411. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  412. <li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction
  413. of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  414. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  415. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  416. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  417. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  418. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  419. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  420. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  421. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  422. Maddock.</li>
  423. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  424. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  425. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  426. </ul>
  427. <h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
  428. <ul>
  429. <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits
  430. for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
  431. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  432. Library for working with tuples, including various containers,
  433. algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
  434. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  435. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  436. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  437. <li><a href="proto/index.html">proto</a> - Expression template library and compiler
  438. construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  439. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  440. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  441. Maddock.</li>
  442. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  443. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  444. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  445. </ul>
  446. <h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
  447. <ul>
  448. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  449. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  450. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  451. </ul>
  452. <h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
  453. <ul>
  454. <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level
  455. I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
  456. ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
  457. <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess </a>- Shared memory, memory mapped files,
  458. process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  459. <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>
  460. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  461. multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
  462. </ul>
  463. <h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
  464. <ul>
  465. <li><a href="accumulators/index.html">accumulators</a> - Framework for incremental
  466. calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  467. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  468. dealing with integral types.</li>
  469. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
  470. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  471. Melquiond, Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  472. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  473. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  474. <li><a href="math/doc/complex/html/index.html">math/complex number algorithms</a> -
  475. These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.</li>
  476. <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  477. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  478. <li><a href="math/doc/octonion/html/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
  479. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  480. <li><a href="math/doc/quaternion/html/index.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  481. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  482. <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  483. A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.</li>
  484. <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/statistical distributions</a> -
  485. A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow</li>
  486. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  487. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  488. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  489. from Fernando </li>
  490. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  491. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  492. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  493. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  494. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  495. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  496. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  497. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  498. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  499. </ul>
  500. <h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
  501. <ul>
  502. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  503. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  504. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  505. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  506. Maddock.</li>
  507. <li><a href="test/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  508. full unit testing, and for program
  509. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  510. </ul>
  511. <h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
  512. <ul>
  513. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  514. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  515. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  516. </li>
  517. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  518. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  519. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  520. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  521. Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
  522. From Joel de Guzman and Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
  523. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  524. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  525. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  526. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  527. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  528. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  529. from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
  530. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  531. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  532. </ul>
  533. <h3><a name="Image-processing">Image processing</a></h3>
  534. <ul>
  535. <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from
  536. Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
  537. </ul>
  538. <h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
  539. <ul>
  540. <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level
  541. I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
  542. ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
  543. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  544. with constant or generated data has never been
  545. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  546. </li>
  547. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  548. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  549. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  550. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  551. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  552. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  553. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  554. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization
  555. of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  556. </ul>
  557. <h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3>
  558. <ul>
  559. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  560. classes and functions into <a
  561. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  562. Abrahams.</li>
  563. </ul>
  564. <h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
  565. <ul>
  566. <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  567. Steve Cleary.</li>
  568. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
  569. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  570. Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
  571. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  572. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  573. <b>prior()</b>
  574. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  575. </ul>
  576. <h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
  577. <ul>
  578. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  579. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  580. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  581. </ul>
  582. <h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3>
  583. <ul>
  584. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  585. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  586. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  587. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  588. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  589. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  590. </ul>
  591. <h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
  592. <ul>
  593. <li><a href="utility/base_from_member.html">base-from-member</a> - Idiom to
  594. initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  595. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  596. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  597. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  598. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  599. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  600. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  601. Walker.</li>
  602. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  603. <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>
  604. <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  605. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  606. Beman Dawes.</li>
  607. <li><a href="flyweight/doc/index.html">flyweight</a> - Design pattern
  608. to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects,
  609. from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  610. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  611. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  612. <li><a href="optional/doc/html/index.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  613. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  614. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  615. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  616. <li><a href="scope_exit/doc/html/index.html">scope_exit</a>
  617. - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov.</li>
  618. <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
  619. complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
  620. maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
  621. <li><a href="utility/swap.html">swap</a> -
  622. Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.</li>
  623. <li><a href="system/doc/index.html">system</a> - Operating
  624. system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the
  625. C++0x standard library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
  626. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  627. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  628. Dawes.</li>
  629. <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
  630. Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
  631. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  632. <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
  633. Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
  634. <li><a href="units/index.html">units</a> -
  635. Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity
  636. manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li>
  637. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  638. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  639. <b>prior()</b>
  640. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  641. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  642. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  643. </ul>
  644. <h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3>
  645. <ul>
  646. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  647. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  648. Maurer.</li>
  649. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  650. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  651. intended for library users.</li>
  652. </ul>
  653. <p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy and Beman Dawes]</p>
  654. <hr>
  655. <h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2>
  656. <ul>
  657. <li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL,
  658. from Nicolai Josuttis. Removed in Boost version 1.32.
  659. Please use <a href="bind/bind.html">Bind</a> or <a
  660. href="lambda/index.html">Lambda</a> instead.</li>
  661. </ul>
  662. <hr>
  663. <p>Revised
  664. <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
  665. s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->27 Jan 2009<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="14772" --></p>
  666. <p>&copy; Copyright Beman Dawes 2000-2004</p>
  667. <p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
  668. (See file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
  669. or <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
  670. </p>
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