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This documentation is <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=159715">available on Sourceforge.</a></p> <hr> <h2>Libraries Listed <a name="Alphabetically">Alphabetically</a></h2> <ul> <li><a href="accumulators/index.html">accumulators</a> - Framework for incremental calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators, from Eric Niebler.</li> <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney. </li> <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from Nicolai Josuttis.</li> <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li> <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li> <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto. </li> <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> <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> - Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.</li> <li><a href="circular_buffer/index.html">circular_buffer</a> - STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.</li> <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer.</li> <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a> - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.</li> <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a> - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.</li> <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.</li> <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle Walker.</li> <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li> <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> <li><a href="exception/doc/boost-exception.html">exception</a> - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2179.html">N2179</a>), from Emil Dotchevski.</li> <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> - Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li> <li><a href="filesystem/index.html">filesystem</a> - Portable paths, iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from Beman Dawes.</li> <li><a href="flyweight/doc/index.html">flyweight</a> - Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.</li> <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li> <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li> <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li> <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li> <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li> <li><a href="functional/factory/index.html">functional/factory</a> - function object templates for dynamic and static object creation, from Tobias Schwinger</li> <li><a href="functional/forward/index.html">functional/forward</a> - adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments, from Tobias Schwinger</li> <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> - A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types, from Daniel James.</li> <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> - Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li> <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li> <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li> <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease dealing with integral types.</li> <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess </a>- Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gaztañaga</li> <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li> <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive </a>- Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gaztañaga</li> <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> <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li> <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li> <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li> <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and Gary Powell.</li> <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">lexical_cast</a> - General literal text conversions, such as an <code>int</code> represented as a <code>string</code>, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/complex/html/index.html">math/complex number algorithms</a> - These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/octonion/html/index.html">math/octonion</a> - Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/quaternion/html/index.html">math/quaternion</a> - Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/special_functions</a> - A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/statistical distributions</a> - A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow</li> <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations, from Hervé Brönnimann.</li> <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> <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes, from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li> <li><a href="msm/index.html">meta state machine</a> - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.</li> <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li> <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.</li> <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions, from Fernando Cacciola.</li> <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="optional/doc/html/index.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li> <li><span class="library"><a href= "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> - Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin.</li> <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a> - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li> <li><a href="polygon/index.html">polygon</a> - Booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson.</li> <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from Steve Cleary.</li> <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen and Paul Mensonides.</li> <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li> <li><a href="property_map/doc/property_map.html">property map</a> - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="property_tree/index.html">property tree</a> - A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl. <li><a href="proto/index.html">proto</a> - Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.</li> <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++ classes and functions into <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave Abrahams.</li> <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li> <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - Concepts and utilities for range-based algorithms, as well as range-based algorithms and range adaptors that allow for efficient and very expressive code, from Thorsten Ottosen and Neil Groves.</li> <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational number class, from Paul Moore.</li> <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for passing references to generic functions, from Jaako Järvi, Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li> <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression library, from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li> <li><a href="scope_exit/doc/html/index.html">scope_exit</a> - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov.</li> <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li> <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals & slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li> <li><a href="signals2/index.html">signals2</a> - managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.</li> <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Six smart pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes, Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li> <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li> <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a> - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li> <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> - String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba.</li> <li><a href="utility/swap.html">swap</a> - Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.</li> <li><a href="system/doc/index.html">system</a> - Operating system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard library, from Beman Dawes.</li> <li><a href="test/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li> <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++ multi-threading, from William Kempf and Anthony Williams.</li> <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman Dawes.</li> <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li> <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li> <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more, from Jaakko Järvi.</li> <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li> <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> - Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li> <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li> <li><a href="units/index.html">units</a> - Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li> <li><a href="../doc/html/unordered.html">unordered</a> - unordered associative containers, from Daniel James.</li> <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b> plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b> <b>prior()</b> function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li> <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li> <li><a href="uuid/index.html">uuid</a> - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.</li> <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li> <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 Kaiser </li> <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2> <h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3> <ul> <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt> class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li> <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li> <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li> <li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression library, from John Maddock</li> <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li> <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> - String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li> <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li> <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 Kaiser.</li> <li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from Nicolai Josuttis.</li> <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto. </li> <li><a href="circular_buffer/index.html">circular_buffer</a> - STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.</li> <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> <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li> <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li> <li><a href="intrusive/index.html">intrusive </a>- Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gaztañaga</li> <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li> <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.</li> <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a> - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li> <li><a href="property_map/doc/property_map.html">property map</a> - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="property_tree/index.html">property tree</a> - A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl. <li><a href="../doc/html/unordered.html">unordered</a> - unordered associative containers, from Daniel James.</li> <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li> <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li> <li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li> <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li> <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li> <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li> <li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations, from Hervé Brönnimann.</li> <li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure for generic algorithms that builds on top of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li> <li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> - String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li> <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b> <b>prior()</b> function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li> </ul> <h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3> <ul> <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> <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li> <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li> <li><a href="functional/factory/index.html">functional/factory</a> - function object templates for dynamic and static object creation, from Tobias Schwinger</li> <li><a href="functional/forward/index.html">functional/forward</a> - adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments, from Tobias Schwinger</li> <li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> - A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types, from Daniel James.</li> <li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and Gary Powell.</li> <li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for passing references to generic functions, from Jaako Järvi, Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li> <li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals & slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li> <li><a href="signals2/index.html">signals2</a> - managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.</li> <li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3> <ul> <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> - Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.</li> <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a> - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> - Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li> <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li> <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li> <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> <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="property_map/doc/property_map.html">property map</a> - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a> - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li> </ul> <h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="function_types/index.html">function_types</a> - Type traits for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li> <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> - Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li> <li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes, from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li> <li><a href="proto/index.html">proto</a> - Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.</li> <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a> - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3> <ul> <li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen and Paul Mensonides.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3> <ul> <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li> <li><a href="interprocess/index.html">interprocess </a>- Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gaztañaga</li> <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> <li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++ multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3> <ul> <li><a href="accumulators/index.html">accumulators</a> - Framework for incremental calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators, from Eric Niebler.</li> <li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease dealing with integral types.</li> <li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/complex/html/index.html">math/complex number algorithms</a> - These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/octonion/html/index.html">math/octonion</a> - Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/quaternion/html/index.html">math/quaternion</a> - Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/special_functions</a> - A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.</li> <li><a href="math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html">math/statistical distributions</a> - A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow</li> <li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li> <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions, from Fernando </li> <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li> <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational number class, from Paul Moore.</li> <li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3> <ul> <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a> - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li> <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a> - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="test/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3> <ul> <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li> <li><a href="bimap/index.html">bimap</a> - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto. </li> <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a> - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.</li> <li><a href="fusion/index.html">fusion</a> - Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman and Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li> <li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.</li> <li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a> - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li> <li><a href="property_tree/index.html">property tree</a> - A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl. <li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more, from Jaakko Järvi.</li> <li><a href="uuid/index.html">uuid</a> - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.</li> <li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Image-processing">Image processing</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="gil/doc/index.html">gil</a> - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="asio/index.html">asio</a> - Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li> <li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li> <li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li> <li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li> <li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li> <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li> <li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3> <ul> <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++ classes and functions into <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave Abrahams.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from Steve Cleary.</li> <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Six smart pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes, Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li> <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b> plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b> <b>prior()</b> function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li> </ul> <h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li> <li><span class="library"><a href= "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> - Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="utility/base_from_member.html">base-from-member</a> - Idiom to initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</li> <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a> - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.</li> <li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.</li> <li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle Walker.</li> <li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li> <li><a href="exception/doc/boost-exception.html">exception</a> - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2179.html">N2179</a>), from Emil Dotchevski.</li> <li><a href="filesystem/index.html">filesystem</a> - Portable paths, iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from Beman Dawes.</li> <li><a href="flyweight/doc/index.html">flyweight</a> - Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.</li> <li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">lexical_cast</a> - General literal text conversions, such as an <code>int</code> represented as a <code>string</code>, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.</li> <li><a href="msm/index.html">meta state machine</a> - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.</li> <li><a href="numeric/conversion/doc/html/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions, from Fernando Cacciola.</li> <li><a href="optional/doc/html/index.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li> <li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li> <li><a href="scope_exit/doc/html/index.html">scope_exit</a> - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov.</li> <li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li> <li><a href="utility/swap.html">swap</a> - Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.</li> <li><a href="system/doc/index.html">system</a> - Operating system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard library, from Beman Dawes.</li> <li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman Dawes.</li> <li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li> <li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li> <li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> - Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li> <li><a href="units/index.html">units</a> - Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li> <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b> plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b> <b>prior()</b> function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li> <li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li> </ul> <h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer.</li> <li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.</li> </ul> <p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy and Beman Dawes]</p> <hr> <h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2> <ul> <li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL, from Nicolai Josuttis. 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