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  28. <h1>Boost Libraries and Documentation</h1>
  29. <dl>
  30. <dt><a href="#Alphabetically">Libraries Listed Alphabetically</a></dt>
  31. <dt><a href="#Category">Libraries Listed by Category</a></dt>
  32. <dl>
  33. <dt><a href="#String">String and text processing</a></dt>
  34. <dt><a href="#Containers">Containers</a></dt>
  35. <dt><a href="#Iterators">Iterators</a></dt>
  36. <dt><a href="#Algorithms">Algorithms</a></dt>
  37. <dt><a href="#Function-objects">Function Objects and higher-order programming</a></dt>
  38. <dt><a href="#Generic">Generic Programming</a></dt>
  39. <dt><a href="#Metaprogramming">Template Metaprogramming</a></dt>
  40. <dt><a href="#Preprocessor">Preprocessor Metaprogramming</a></dt>
  41. <dt><a href="#Concurrent">Concurrent Programming</a>
  42. <dt><a href="#Math">Math and numerics</a></dt>
  43. <dt><a href="#Correctness">Correctness and testing</a></dt>
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  50. <dt><a href="#Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></dt>
  51. <dt><a href="#workarounds">Broken compiler workarounds</a></dt>
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  55. <p>See <a href="../status/compiler_status.html">Compiler Status</a>
  56. page to find out what library works with which compiler.<br>
  57. See <a href="../more/getting_started.html">Getting Started</a> page to find out
  58. how to download, build, and install the libraries.</p>
  59. <p>Documentation for some Boost libraries is available in other forms,
  60. including DocBook, XSL Formatting Objects, and Unix man pages. This
  61. documentation is <a
  62. href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=159715">available
  63. on Sourceforge.</a></p>
  64. <hr>
  65. <h2>Libraries Listed <a name="Alphabetically">Alphabetically</a></h2>
  66. <ul>
  67. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  68. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.&nbsp;</li>
  69. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  70. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  71. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  72. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  73. with constant or generated data has never been
  74. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  75. </li>
  76. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  77. </li>
  78. <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
  79. Dimov.</li>
  80. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  81. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  82. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  83. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  84. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  85. Maurer.</li>
  86. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  87. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  88. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  89. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  90. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  91. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  92. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  93. intended for library users.</li>
  94. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  95. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  96. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  97. Walker.</li>
  98. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  99. <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>
  100. <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>
  101. <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  102. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  103. Beman Dawes.</li>
  104. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  105. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  106. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  107. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  108. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  109. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  110. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  111. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  112. <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
  113. A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
  114. types, from Daniel James.</li>
  115. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  116. Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
  117. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
  118. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  119. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  120. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  121. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  122. dealing with integral types.</li>
  123. <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess </a>- Shared memory, memory mapped files,
  124. process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  125. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
  126. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  127. Melquiond, Herv&acute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  128. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive </a>- Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  129. <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>
  130. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  131. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  132. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  133. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
  134. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  135. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  136. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  137. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko J?rvi and
  138. Gary Powell.</li>
  139. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  140. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  141. <li><a href="math/doc/complex/html/index.html">math/complex number algorithms</a> -
  142. These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.</li>
  143. <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  144. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  145. <li><a href="math/doc/octonion/html/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
  146. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  147. <li><a href="math/doc/quaternion/html/index.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  148. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  149. <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  150. A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.</li>
  151. <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/statistical distributions</a> -
  152. A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow</li>
  153. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  154. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  155. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  156. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  157. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  158. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  159. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  160. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  161. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  162. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  163. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  164. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  165. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  166. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  167. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  168. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  169. <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  170. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  171. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  172. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  173. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  174. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  175. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  176. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease
  177. OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  178. <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  179. Steve Cleary.</li>
  180. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  181. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  182. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  183. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  184. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  185. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  186. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  187. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  188. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  189. classes and functions into <a
  190. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  191. Abrahams.</li>
  192. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  193. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  194. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  195. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  196. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  197. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  198. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  199. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  200. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  201. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  202. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  203. library, from John Maddock.</li>
  204. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a>
  205. - Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  206. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
  207. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  208. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
  209. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  210. Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
  211. <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
  212. complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
  213. maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
  214. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  215. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  216. Maddock.</li>
  217. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  218. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  219. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  220. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  221. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  222. <li><a href="system/doc/index.html">system</a> - Operating system support,
  223. including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard
  224. library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
  225. <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  226. full unit testing, and for program
  227. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  228. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  229. multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
  230. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  231. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  232. Dawes.</li>
  233. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  234. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  235. <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
  236. Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
  237. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  238. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  239. from Jaakko J?rvi.</li>
  240. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  241. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  242. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  243. <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
  244. Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
  245. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  246. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  247. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  248. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  249. <b>prior()</b>
  250. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
  251. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  252. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  253. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union
  254. container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  255. <li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> - Standards conformant
  256. implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser </li>
  257. <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
  258. and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  259. </ul>
  260. <hr>
  261. <h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
  262. <h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
  263. <ul>
  264. <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
  265. class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  266. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  267. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  268. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  269. <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
  270. library, from John Maddock</li>
  271. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  272. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  273. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  274. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  275. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  276. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  277. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
  278. <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>
  279. <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
  280. and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  281. </ul>
  282. <h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
  283. <ul>
  284. <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
  285. container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
  286. Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
  287. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  288. </li>
  289. <li><a href="circular_buffer/index.html">circular_buffer</a> - STL compliant
  290. container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.</li>
  291. <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>
  292. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  293. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  294. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  295. <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive </a>- Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  296. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  297. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  298. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  299. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  300. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  301. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  302. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  303. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  304. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  305. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  306. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  307. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  308. </ul>
  309. <h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
  310. <ul>
  311. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  312. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  313. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  314. <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
  315. construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
  316. Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
  317. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  318. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  319. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  320. <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
  321. character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
  322. </ul>
  323. <h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
  324. <ul>
  325. <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
  326. iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
  327. <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
  328. Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
  329. and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
  330. <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
  331. extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
  332. from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
  333. <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
  334. String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
  335. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b>&nbsp; <b>prior()</b>
  336. function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  337. <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
  338. for generic algorithms that builds on top
  339. of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
  340. </ul>
  341. <h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3>
  342. <ul>
  343. <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>
  344. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  345. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  346. <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
  347. function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
  348. <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
  349. A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
  350. types, from Daniel James.</li>
  351. <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
  352. function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko J?rvi and
  353. Gary Powell.</li>
  354. <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
  355. passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
  356. Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
  357. <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
  358. slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  359. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
  360. </ul>
  361. <h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3>
  362. <ul>
  363. <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
  364. Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
  365. Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
  366. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  367. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  368. <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> -
  369. Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko
  370. J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
  371. <li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction
  372. of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  373. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  374. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  375. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  376. <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
  377. - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
  378. value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  379. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  380. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  381. Maddock.</li>
  382. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  383. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  384. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  385. </ul>
  386. <h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
  387. <ul>
  388. <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
  389. framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
  390. from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
  391. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  392. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  393. Maddock.</li>
  394. <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
  395. Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
  396. Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
  397. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  398. Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
  399. From Joel de Guzman and Dan Marsden.</li>
  400. </ul>
  401. <h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
  402. <ul>
  403. <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
  404. metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
  405. and Paul Mensonides.</li>
  406. </ul>
  407. <h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
  408. <ul>
  409. <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess </a>- Shared memory, memory mapped files,
  410. process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gazta&ntilde;aga</li>
  411. <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
  412. multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
  413. </ul>
  414. <h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
  415. <ul>
  416. <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
  417. domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
  418. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  419. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  420. <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
  421. dealing with integral types.</li>
  422. <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
  423. usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
  424. Melquiond, Herv? Br?nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
  425. <li><a href="math/doc/complex/html/index.html">math/complex number algorithms</a> -
  426. These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.</li>
  427. <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
  428. common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  429. <li><a href="math/doc/octonion/html/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
  430. Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  431. <li><a href="math/doc/quaternion/html/index.html">math/quaternion</a> -
  432. Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
  433. <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
  434. A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.</li>
  435. <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/statistical distributions</a> -
  436. A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow</li>
  437. <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
  438. containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
  439. <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
  440. ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
  441. and Jeremy Siek.</li>
  442. <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
  443. system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
  444. <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
  445. number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
  446. <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
  447. for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
  448. </ul>
  449. <h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
  450. <ul>
  451. <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
  452. - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
  453. <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
  454. - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
  455. Maddock.</li>
  456. <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
  457. full unit testing, and for program
  458. execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
  459. </ul>
  460. <h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
  461. <ul>
  462. <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
  463. values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
  464. <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
  465. </li>
  466. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  467. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  468. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  469. <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
  470. multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
  471. Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
  472. <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
  473. - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
  474. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
  475. from Jaakko J?rvi.</li>
  476. <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
  477. discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
  478. <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> -
  479. Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
  480. From Joel de Guzman and Dan Marsden.</li>
  481. </ul>
  482. <h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
  483. <ul>
  484. <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
  485. operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
  486. <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
  487. prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  488. <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
  489. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  490. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  491. <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization
  492. of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
  493. <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
  494. with constant or generated data has never been
  495. easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
  496. </li>
  497. </ul>
  498. <h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3>
  499. <ul>
  500. <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
  501. classes and functions into <a
  502. href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
  503. Abrahams.</li>
  504. </ul>
  505. <h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
  506. <ul>
  507. <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
  508. Steve Cleary.</li>
  509. <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
  510. pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
  511. Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
  512. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  513. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  514. <b>prior()</b>
  515. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  516. </ul>
  517. <h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
  518. <ul>
  519. <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
  520. represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
  521. Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
  522. </ul>
  523. <h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3>
  524. <ul>
  525. <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
  526. for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  527. <li><span class="library"><a href=
  528. "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
  529. Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
  530. and Daniel Wallin.</li>
  531. </ul>
  532. <h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
  533. <ul>
  534. <li><a href="utility/base_from_member.html">base-from-member</a> - Idiom to
  535. initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</li>
  536. <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
  537. - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
  538. Hinnant, et al.</li>
  539. <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
  540. Kevlin Henney.</li>
  541. <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
  542. from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  543. <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
  544. Walker.</li>
  545. <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
  546. <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
  547. iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
  548. Beman Dawes.</li>
  549. <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
  550. wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
  551. <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
  552. data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
  553. <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
  554. complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
  555. maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
  556. <li><a href="system/doc/index.html">system</a> - Operating
  557. system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the
  558. C++0x standard library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
  559. <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
  560. progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
  561. Dawes.</li>
  562. <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
  563. Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
  564. <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
  565. <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
  566. Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
  567. <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
  568. plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
  569. <b>prior()</b>
  570. function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
  571. <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
  572. from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
  573. </ul>
  574. <h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3>
  575. <ul>
  576. <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
  577. non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
  578. Maurer.</li>
  579. <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
  580. library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
  581. intended for library users.</li>
  582. </ul>
  583. <p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy and Beman Dawes]</p>
  584. <hr>
  585. <h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2>
  586. <ul>
  587. <li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL,
  588. from Nicolai Josuttis. Removed in Boost version 1.32.
  589. Please use <a href="bind/bind.html">Bind</a> or <a
  590. href="lambda/index.html">Lambda</a> instead.</li>
  591. </ul>
  592. <hr>
  593. <p>Revised
  594. <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
  595. s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->01 Nov 2007<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="15262" --></p>
  596. <p>? Copyright Beman Dawes 2000-2004</p>
  597. <p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
  598. (See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
  599. or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
  600. </p>
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