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33<h1>Boost Libraries and Documentation</h1>
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37  <dt><a href="#Alphabetically">Libraries Listed Alphabetically</a></dt>
38  <dt><a href="#Category">Libraries Listed by Category</a></dt>
39    <dl>
40      <dt><a href="#String">String and text processing</a></dt>
41      <dt><a href="#Containers">Containers</a></dt>
42      <dt><a href="#Iterators">Iterators</a></dt>
43      <dt><a href="#Algorithms">Algorithms</a></dt>
44      <dt><a href="#Function-objects">Function Objects and higher-order programming</a></dt>
45      <dt><a href="#Generic">Generic Programming</a></dt>
46      <dt><a href="#Metaprogramming">Template Metaprogramming</a></dt>
47      <dt><a href="#Preprocessor">Preprocessor Metaprogramming</a></dt>
48      <dt><a href="#Concurrent">Concurrent Programming</a>
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50      <dt><a href="#Correctness">Correctness and testing</a></dt>
51      <dt><a href="#Data">Data structures</a></dt>
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56      <dt><a href="#Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></dt>
57      <dt><a href="#Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></dt>
58      <dt><a href="#workarounds">Broken compiler workarounds</a></dt>
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65 page to find out what library works with which compiler.<br>
66See <a href="../more/getting_started.html">Getting Started</a>  page to find out
67how to download, build, and install the libraries.</p>
68
69<p>Documentation for some Boost libraries is available in other forms,
70  including DocBook, XSL Formatting Objects, and Unix man pages. This
71  documentation is <a
72  href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=159715">available
73  on Sourceforge.</a></p>
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76
77<h2>Libraries Listed <a name="Alphabetically">Alphabetically</a></h2>
78
79<ul>
80    <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
81      values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.&nbsp;</li>
82    <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
83        container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
84        Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
85    <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
86        with constant or generated data has never been
87        easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
88        </li>
89    <li><a href="bind/bind.html">bind</a> and <a href="bind/mem_fn.html"> mem_fn</a> - Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions, from Peter
90      Dimov.</li>
91    <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
92        Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
93        Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
94    <li><a href="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="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> - Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
112    <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
113    iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
114    Beman Dawes.</li>
115    <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
116    iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
117    <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
118    operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
119    <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
120      for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
121    <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
122        function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
123    <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
124        A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
125        types, from Daniel James.</li>
126    <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
127        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
128        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
129    <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
130        dealing with integral types.</li>
131    <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
132    usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
133    Melquiond, Herv&acute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</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 Järvi 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/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
147    common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
148    <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/octonions.html">math/octonion</a> -
149        Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
150    <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/quaternions.html">math/quaternion</a> -
151        Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
152    <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/math_special_functions.html">math/special_functions</a> -
153        Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
154        from Hubert Holin.</li>
155    <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
156        extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
157    from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
158    <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
159    framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
160    from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
161    <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
162    containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
163    <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
164    multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
165    Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
166    <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
167        from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
168    <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
169        ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
170        and Jeremy Siek.</li>
171    <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
172    wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
173
174    <li><span class="library"><a href=
175    "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
176    Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
177    and Daniel Wallin.</li>
178
179    <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
180    - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease
181      OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
182    <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
183      Steve Cleary.</li>
184    <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
185    metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
186    and Paul Mensonides.</li>
187    <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
188        data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
189    <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
190        - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
191        value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
192    <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
193        classes and functions into <a
194        href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
195        Abrahams.</li>
196    <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
197        system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
198    <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
199        for generic algorithms that builds on top
200        of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
201    <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
202        number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
203
204    <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
205    passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
206    Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
207
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 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="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
229    full unit testing, and for program
230      execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
231    <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
232      multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
233    <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
234        progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
235        Dawes.</li>
236    <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
237      character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
238    <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
239        Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
240    <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
241    <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
242    from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
243    <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
244        Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
245        Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
246    <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
247        Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
248    <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
249    for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
250    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
251        plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
252      <b>prior()</b>
253        function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
254        <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
255        from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
256    <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union
257    container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
258    <li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> -  Standards conformant
259  implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser </li>
260    <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
261        and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
262</ul>
263
264<hr>
265
266<h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
267
268<h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
269
270<ul>
271    <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
272      class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
273    <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
274    operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
275    <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
276    <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
277        library, from John Maddock</li>
278    <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
279    represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
280    Guzman and team.</li>
281    <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
282    String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
283    <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
284      character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
285    <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>
286    <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
287        and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
288</ul>
289
290<h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
291
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="dynamic_bitset/dynamic_bitset.html">dynamic_bitset</a> - A runtime sized version of <tt>std::bitset</tt> from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison.</li>
297    <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
298        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
299        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
300    <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
301    containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
302    <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
303    multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
304    Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
305    <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
306      - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
307    <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
308        - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
309        value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
310    <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
311    discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
312</ul>
313
314<h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
315
316<ul>
317    <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
318        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
319        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
320    <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
321        construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
322        Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
323    <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
324        ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
325        and Jeremy Siek.</li>
326    <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
327      character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
328</ul>
329
330<h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
331
332<ul>
333    <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
334        iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
335    <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
336        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
337        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
338    <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
339        extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
340        from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
341    <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
342        String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
343    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b>&nbsp; <b>prior()</b>
344      function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
345    <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
346        for generic algorithms that builds on top
347        of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
348</ul>
349
350<h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3>
351
352<ul>
353    <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>
354
355    <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
356      for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
357    <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
358        function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
359    <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
360        A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
361        types, from Daniel James.</li>
362    <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
363    function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and
364    Gary Powell.</li>
365
366    <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
367    passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
368    Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
369
370    <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
371         slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
372
373    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
374</ul>
375
376<h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3>
377
378<ul>
379    <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
380        Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
381        Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
382    <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
383        - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
384    <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> -
385        Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko
386        J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
387    <li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction
388         of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
389    <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
390        ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
391        and Jeremy Siek.</li>
392
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</ul>
403
404<h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
405
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</ul>
417
418<h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
419
420<ul>
421    <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
422    metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
423    and Paul Mensonides.</li>
424</ul>
425
426<h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
427
428<ul>
429    <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
430      multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
431</ul>
432
433<h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
434
435<ul>
436    <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
437    domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
438    <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
439        from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
440    <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
441        dealing with integral types.</li>
442    <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
443    usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
444    Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
445    <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
446    common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
447    <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/octonions.html">math/octonion</a> -
448      Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
449    <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/quaternions.html">math/quaternion</a> -
450      Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
451    <li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/math_special_functions.html">math/special_functions</a> -
452        Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
453        from Hubert Holin.</li>
454    <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
455    containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
456    <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
457        ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
458        and Jeremy Siek.</li>
459    <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
460        system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
461    <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
462        number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
463    <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
464    for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
465</ul>
466
467<h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
468
469<ul>
470    <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
471        - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
472    <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
473        - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
474        Maddock.</li>
475    <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
476    full unit testing, and for program
477      execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
478</ul>
479
480<h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
481
482<ul>
483    <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
484      values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
485    <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
486        - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
487        Hinnant, et al.</li>
488    <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
489    multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
490    Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
491    <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
492    - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
493    <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
494    from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
495    <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
496    discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
497</ul>
498
499<h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
500<ul>
501  <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
502  operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
503  <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
504  prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
505  <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
506  <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
507  data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
508  <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization
509of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
510    <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
511    with constant or generated data has never been
512    easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
513    </li>
514
515</ul>
516
517<h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3>
518
519<ul>
520    <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
521        classes and functions into <a
522        href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
523        Abrahams.</li>
524</ul>
525
526<h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
527
528<ul>
529    <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
530      Steve Cleary.</li>
531    <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
532        pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
533        Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
534    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
535        plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
536      <b>prior()</b>
537        function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
538</ul>
539
540<h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
541
542<ul>
543  <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
544  represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
545  Guzman and team.</li>
546</ul>
547
548<h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3>
549
550<ul>
551    <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
552      for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
553
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
560<h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
561
562<ul>
563    <li><a href="utility/base_from_member.html">base-from-member</a> - Idiom to
564    initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</li>
565    <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
566        - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
567        Hinnant, et al.</li>
568    <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
569        Kevlin Henney.</li>
570    <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
571        from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
572    <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
573      Walker.</li>
574    <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
575    <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
576    iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
577    Beman Dawes.</li>
578    <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
579    wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
580    <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
581        data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
582    <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
583    complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
584    maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
585    <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
586    progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
587    Dawes.</li>
588    <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
589        Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
590    <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
591    <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
592        Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
593    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
594        plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
595      <b>prior()</b>
596        function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
597        <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
598        from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
599</ul>
600
601<h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3>
602
603<ul>
604    <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
605      non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
606      Maurer.</li>
607    <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
608        library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
609        intended for library users.</li>
610</ul>
611
612<p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy and Beman Dawes]</p>
613
614<hr>
615
616<h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2>
617
618<ul>
619    <li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL,
620        from Nicolai Josuttis.  Removed in Boost version 1.32.
621        Please use <a href="bind/bind.html">Bind</a> or <a
622        href="lambda/index.html">Lambda</a> instead.</li>
623</ul>
624
625<hr>
626
627<p>Revised
628<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
629s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->12 Mar 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="14901" --></p>
630
631<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes 2000-2004</p>
632<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
633(See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
634or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
635</p>
636
637</body>
638</html>
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