<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Chapter 12. Boost.Functional/Hash</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Boost C++ Libraries BoostBook Documentation Subset"> <link rel="up" href="libraries.html" title="Part I. The Boost C++ Libraries (BoostBook Subset)"> <link rel="prev" href="function/testsuite.html" title="Testsuite"> <link rel="next" href="hash/tutorial.html" title="Tutorial"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="function/testsuite.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="libraries.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="hash/tutorial.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="chapter"> <div class="titlepage"><div> <div><h2 class="title"> <a name="hash"></a>Chapter 12. Boost.Functional/Hash</h2></div> <div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"> <span class="firstname">Daniel</span> <span class="surname">James</span> </h3></div></div> <div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2005-2008 Daniel James</p></div> <div><div class="legalnotice"> <a name="hash.legal"></a><p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) </p> </div></div> </div></div> <div class="toc"> <p><b>Table of Contents</b></p> <dl class="toc"> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash.html#hash.intro">Introduction</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/tutorial.html">Tutorial</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/custom.html">Extending boost::hash for a custom data type</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/combine.html">Combining hash values</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/portability.html">Portability</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/disable.html">Disabling The Extensions</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/changes.html">Change Log</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/rationale.html">Rationale</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/reference.html">Reference</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/reference.html#hash.reference.specification"></a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/reference.html#header.boost.functional.hash_hpp">Header <boost/functional/hash.hpp></a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/links.html">Links</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="hash/acknowledgements.html">Acknowledgements</a></span></dt> </dl> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> <a name="hash.intro"></a><a class="link" href="hash.html#hash.intro" title="Introduction">Introduction</a> </h2></div></div></div> <p> <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="boost/hash.html" title="Struct template hash">boost::hash</a></code> is an implementation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function" target="_top">hash function</a> object specified by the <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf" target="_top">Draft Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions</a> (TR1). It is the default hash function for <a class="link" href="unordered.html" title="Chapter 38. Boost.Unordered">Boost.Unordered</a>, <a class="link" href="intrusive/unordered_set_unordered_multiset.html" title="Semi-Intrusive unordered associative containers: unordered_set, unordered_multiset">Boost.Intrusive</a>'s unordered associative containers, and <a href="../../libs/multi_index/doc/index.html" target="_top">Boost.MultiIndex</a>'s hash indicies and <a href="../../libs/bimap/index.html" target="_top">Boost.Bimap</a>'s <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">unordered_set_of</span></code>. </p> <p> As it is compliant with <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf" target="_top">TR1</a>, it will work with: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "> <li class="listitem"> integers </li> <li class="listitem"> floats </li> <li class="listitem"> pointers </li> <li class="listitem"> strings </li> </ul></div> <p> It also implements the extension proposed by Peter Dimov in issue 6.18 of the <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1837.pdf" target="_top">Library Extension Technical Report Issues List</a> (page 63), this adds support for: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "> <li class="listitem"> arrays </li> <li class="listitem"> <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">pair</span></code> </li> <li class="listitem"> the standard containers. </li> <li class="listitem"> extending <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="boost/hash.html" title="Struct template hash">boost::hash</a></code> for custom types. </li> </ul></div> <div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../../doc/src/images/note.png"></td> <th align="left">Note</th> </tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This hash function is designed to be used in containers based on the STL and is not suitable as a general purpose hash function. For more details see the <a class="link" href="hash/rationale.html" title="Rationale">rationale</a>. </p></td></tr> </table></div> </div> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"><p><small>Last revised: December 14, 2015 at 09:17:40 GMT</small></p></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer"></div></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="function/testsuite.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="libraries.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="hash/tutorial.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> </body> </html>