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33<h1>Boost Libraries and Documentation</h1>
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36<dl>
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>
49      <dt><a href="#Math">Math and numerics</a></dt>
50      <dt><a href="#Correctness">Correctness and testing</a></dt>
51      <dt><a href="#Data">Data structures</a></dt>
52      <dt><a href="#IO">Input/Output</a><a href="#Memory"></a></dt>
53      <dt><a href="#Inter-language">Inter-language support</a></dt>
54      <dt><a href="#Memory">Memory</a></dt>
55      <dt><a href="#Parsing">Parsing</a></dt>
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>
59    </dl>
60  <dt><a href="#Removed">Libraries Retired from Boost</a></dt>
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64<p>See <a href="../status/compiler_status.html">Compiler Status</a>
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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75<hr>
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="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
116    operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
117    <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
118      for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
119    <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
120        function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
121    <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
122        A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
123        types, from Daniel James.</li>
124    <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
125        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
126        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
127    <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
128        dealing with integral types.</li>
129    <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
130    usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
131    Melquiond, Herv&acute; Br&ouml;nnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
132    <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>
133    <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
134    prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
135    <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
136    <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
137        construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
138        Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
139    <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
140    function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and
141    Gary Powell.</li>
142    <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
143    domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
144    <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
145    common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
146    <li><a href="math/octonion/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
147        Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
148    <li><a href="math/quaternion/index.html">math/quaternion</a> -
149        Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
150    <li><a href="math/special_functions/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
151        Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
152        from Hubert Holin.</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
172    <li><span class="library"><a href=
173    "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
174    Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
175    and Daniel Wallin.</li>
176
177    <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
178    - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease
179      OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
180    <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
181      Steve Cleary.</li>
182    <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
183    metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
184    and Paul Mensonides.</li>
185    <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
186        data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
187    <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
188        - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
189        value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
190    <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
191        classes and functions into <a
192        href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
193        Abrahams.</li>
194    <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
195        system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
196    <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
197        for generic algorithms that builds on top
198        of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
199    <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
200        number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
201
202    <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
203    passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
204    Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
205
206    <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
207        library, from John Maddock.</li>
208    <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a>
209        - Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
210    <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
211         slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
212    <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
213        pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
214        Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
215    <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
216        - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
217        Maddock.</li>
218    <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
219    represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
220    Guzman and team.</li>
221    <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
222    String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
223    <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
224    full unit testing, and for program
225      execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
226    <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
227      multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
228    <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
229        progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
230        Dawes.</li>
231    <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
232      character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
233    <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
234    <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
235    from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
236    <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
237        Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
238        Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
239    <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
240    for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
241    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
242        plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
243      <b>prior()</b>
244        function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
245        <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
246        from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
247    <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union
248    container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
249    <li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> -  Standards conformant
250  implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser </li>
251</ul>
252
253<hr>
254
255<h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
256
257<h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
258
259<ul>
260    <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
261      class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
262    <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
263    operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
264    <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
265    <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
266        library, from John Maddock</li>
267    <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
268    represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
269    Guzman and team.</li>
270    <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
271    String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
272    <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
273      character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
274    <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>
275</ul>
276
277<h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
278
279<ul>
280    <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
281        container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
282        Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
283    <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>
284    <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
285        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
286        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
287    <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
288    containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
289    <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
290    multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
291    Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
292    <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
293      - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
294    <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
295        - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
296        value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
297    <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
298    discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
299</ul>
300
301<h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
302
303<ul>
304    <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
305        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
306        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
307    <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
308        construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
309        Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
310    <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
311        ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
312        and Jeremy Siek.</li>
313    <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
314      character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
315</ul>
316
317<h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
318
319<ul>
320    <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
321        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
322        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
323    <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
324        extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
325        from Herv&eacute; Br&ouml;nnimann.</li>
326    <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
327        String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
328    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b>&nbsp; <b>prior()</b>
329      function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
330    <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
331        for generic algorithms that builds on top
332        of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
333</ul>
334
335<h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3>
336
337<ul>
338    <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>
339
340    <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
341      for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
342    <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
343        function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
344    <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
345        A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
346        types, from Daniel James.</li>
347    <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
348    function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and
349    Gary Powell.</li>
350
351    <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
352    passing references to generic functions, from Jaako J&auml;rvi,
353    Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
354
355    <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &amp;
356         slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
357
358    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
359</ul>
360
361<h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3>
362
363<ul>
364    <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
365        Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
366        Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
367    <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
368        - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
369    <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> -
370        Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko
371        J&auml;rvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
372    <li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction
373         of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
374    <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
375        ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
376        and Jeremy Siek.</li>
377
378    <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
379        - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
380        value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
381    <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
382        - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
383        Maddock.</li>
384    <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
385        Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
386        Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
387</ul>
388
389<h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
390
391<ul>
392    <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
393    framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
394    from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
395    <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
396        - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
397        Maddock.</li>
398    <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
399        Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
400        Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
401</ul>
402
403<h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
404
405<ul>
406    <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
407    metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
408    and Paul Mensonides.</li>
409</ul>
410
411<h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
412
413<ul>
414    <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
415      multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
416</ul>
417
418<h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
419
420<ul>
421    <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
422    domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
423    <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
424        from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
425    <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
426        dealing with integral types.</li>
427    <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
428    usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
429    Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
430    <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
431    common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
432    <li><a href="math/octonion/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
433      Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
434    <li><a href="math/quaternion/index.html">math/quaternion</a> -
435      Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
436    <li><a href="math/special_functions/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
437        Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
438        from Hubert Holin.</li>
439    <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
440    containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
441    <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
442        ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
443        and Jeremy Siek.</li>
444    <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
445        system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
446    <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
447        number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
448    <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
449    for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
450</ul>
451
452<h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
453
454<ul>
455    <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
456        - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
457    <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
458        - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
459        Maddock.</li>
460    <li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
461    full unit testing, and for program
462      execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
463</ul>
464
465<h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
466
467<ul>
468    <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
469      values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
470    <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
471        - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
472        Hinnant, et al.</li>
473    <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
474    multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaqu&iacute;n M L&oacute;pez
475    Mu&ntilde;oz.</li>
476    <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
477    - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
478    <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
479    from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
480    <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
481    discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
482</ul>
483
484<h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
485<ul>
486  <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
487  operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
488  <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
489  prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
490  <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
491  <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
492  data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
493  <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization
494of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
495    <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
496    with constant or generated data has never been
497    easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
498    </li>
499
500</ul>
501
502<h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3>
503
504<ul>
505    <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
506        classes and functions into <a
507        href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
508        Abrahams.</li>
509</ul>
510
511<h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
512
513<ul>
514    <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
515      Steve Cleary.</li>
516    <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
517        pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
518        Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
519    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
520        plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
521      <b>prior()</b>
522        function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
523</ul>
524
525<h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
526
527<ul>
528  <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework&nbsp;
529  represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
530  Guzman and team.</li>
531</ul>
532
533<h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3>
534
535<ul>
536    <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
537      for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
538
539    <li><span class="library"><a href=
540    "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
541    Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
542    and Daniel Wallin.</li>
543</ul>
544
545<h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
546
547<ul>
548    <li><a href="utility/base_from_member.html">base-from-member</a> - Idiom to
549    initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</li>
550    <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
551        - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
552        Hinnant, et al.</li>
553    <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
554        Kevlin Henney.</li>
555    <li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
556        from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
557    <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
558      Walker.</li>
559    <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
560    <li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
561    iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
562    Beman Dawes.</li>
563    <li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
564    wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
565    <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
566        data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
567    <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
568        progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
569        Dawes.</li>
570    <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
571    <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
572        plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
573      <b>prior()</b>
574        function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
575        <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
576        from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
577</ul>
578
579<h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3>
580
581<ul>
582    <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
583      non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
584      Maurer.</li>
585    <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
586        library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
587        intended for library users.</li>
588</ul>
589
590<p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy and Beman Dawes]</p>
591
592<hr>
593
594<h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2>
595
596<ul>
597    <li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL,
598        from Nicolai Josuttis.  Removed in Boost version 1.32.
599        Please use <a href="bind/bind.html">Bind</a> or <a
600        href="lambda/index.html">Lambda</a> instead.</li>
601</ul>
602
603<hr>
604
605<p>Revised
606<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
607s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->02 Aug 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="14768" --></p>
608
609<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes 2000-2004</p>
610<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
611(See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
612or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
613</p>
614
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