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