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| 20 | <h1>More Information</h1> |
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| 21 | <h2>Boost Policies</h2> |
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| 23 | <p><a href="discussion_policy.htm"><b>Mailing List Discussion Policy.</b></a> |
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| 69 | <p><a href="regression.html"><b>Internal Regression Test Suite</b></a> |
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| 70 | Describes the tool for generating the compiler status tables |
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| 72 | <p><b><a href="proposal.pdf">Proposal for a C++ Library Repository Web Site</a></b> |
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| 73 | The original 1998 proposal that launched Boost.</p> |
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| 74 | <p><b><a href="bugs.htm">How to report bugs</a></b> Ways to report Boost |
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| 75 | bugs.</p> |
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| 85 | <p><a href="error_handling.html"><b>Error and Exception Handling</b></a> describes |
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| 86 | approaches to errors and exceptions by <a href="../people/dave_abrahams.htm">David |
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| 89 | <p><a href="count_bdy.htm"><b>Counted Body Techniques</b></a> by <a href="../people/kevlin_henney.htm"> |
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| 90 | Kevlin Henney</a> is must reading for those interested in reference |
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| 91 | counting, a widely used object management idiom. Originally published in <a href="http://www.accu.org/c++sig/public/Overload.html"> |
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| 92 | Overload</a> magazine.</p> |
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| 93 | <p><a href="generic_programming.html"><b>Generic Programming Techniques</b></a> by <a href="../people/dave_abrahams.htm"> |
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| 94 | David Abrahams</a> and <a href="../people/jeremy_siek.htm">Jeremy Siek</a> describe |
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| 95 | some of the techniques used in Boost libraries.</p> |
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| 96 | <p><a href="feature_model_diagrams.htm"><b>Feature Model Diagrams in text and HTML</b></a> |
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| 97 | describes how to represent feature model diagrams in text form.</p> |
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| 98 | <p><a href="borland_cpp.html"><b>Portability Hints: Borland C++ 5.5.1</b></a> describes |
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| 99 | Borland C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.</p> |
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| 100 | <p><a href="microsoft_vcpp.html"><b>Portability Hints: Microsoft VC++ 6.0 SP4</b></a> |
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| 101 | describes Microsoft C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.</p> |
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| 102 | <p><a href="int_const_guidelines.htm"><strong>Coding Guidelines for Integral Constant |
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| 103 | Expressions</strong></a> describes how to work through the maze of |
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| 104 | compiler related bugs surrounding this tricky topic.</p> |
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| 108 | Revised |
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| 109 | <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" |
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| 110 | s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->10 May, 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="13987" --></p> |
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| 111 | <p> |
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| 112 | © Copyright Beman Dawes 2003.</p> |
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| 114 | Use, modification, and distribution are subject to the Boost Software License, |
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| 115 | Version 1.0. (See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> |
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