Boost C++ Libraries

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Boost 1.31.0 Library Documentation

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  • Any: Safe, generic container for single values of different value types.
  • Array: STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size.
  • Bind: boost::bind is a generalization of the standard functions std::bind1st and std::bind2nd. It supports arbitrary function objects, functions, function pointers, and member function pointers, and is able to bind any argument to a specific value or route input arguments into arbitrary positions.
  • Call Traits: Defines types for passing parameters.
  • Compatibility: Help for non-conforming standard libraries.
  • Compressed Pair: Empty member optimization.
  • Concept Check: Tools for generic programming.
  • Config: Helps Boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.
  • Conversion: Polymorphic and lexical casts.
  • CRC: The Boost CRC Library provides two implementations of CRC (cyclic redundancy code) computation objects and two implementations of CRC computation functions. The implementations are template-based.
  • Date Time: A set of date-time libraries based on generic programming concepts.
  • Dynamic Bitset: The dynamic_bitset class represents a set of bits. It provides accesses to the value of individual bits via an operator[] and provides all of the bitwise operators that one can apply to builtin integers, such as operator& and operator<<. The number of bits in the set is specified at runtime via a parameter to the constructor of the dynamic_bitset.
  • Enable If: Selective inclusion of function template overloads.
  • Filesystem: The Boost Filesystem Library provides portable facilities to query and manipulate paths, files, and directories.
  • Format: The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences: format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely type-safe and naturally supports all user-defined types; the ellipsis (...) can not be used correctly in the strongly typed context of format, and thus the function call with arbitrary arguments is replaced by successive calls to an argument feeding operator%.
  • Function: Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks.
  • Functional: The Boost.Function library contains a family of class templates that are function object wrappers.
  • Graph: The BGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in the same sense as the the Standard Template Library (STL).
  • Integer: The organization of boost integer headers and classes is designed to take advantage of <stdint.h> types from the 1999 C standard without resorting to undefined behavior in terms of the 1998 C++ standard. The header <boost/cstdint.hpp> makes the standard integer types safely available in namespace boost without placing any names in namespace std.
  • Interval: Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals.
  • IO State Savers: The I/O sub-library of Boost helps segregate the large number of Boost headers. This sub-library should contain various items to use with/for the standard I/O library.
  • Iterator: The Boost Iterator Library contains two parts. The first is a system of concepts which extend the C++ standard iterator requirements. The second is a framework of components for building iterators based on these extended concepts and includes several useful iterator adaptors.
  • Lambda: Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.
  • Lexical Cast: General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa.
  • Math: Boost.Math includes several contributions in the domain of mathematics: The Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple library provides run-time and compile-time evaluation of the greatest common divisor (GCD) or least common multiple (LCM) of two integers. The Special Functions library currently provides eight templated special functions, in namespace boost. The Complex Number Inverse Trigonometric Functions are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard. Quaternions are a relative of complex numbers often used to parameterise rotations in three dimentional space. Octonions, like quaternions, are a relative of complex numbers.
  • Math Common Factor: Greatest common divisor and least common multiple.
  • Math Octonion: Octonions.
  • Math Quaternion: Quaternions.
  • Member Function: Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions.
  • MPL: The Boost.MPL library is a general-purpose, high-level C++ template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunctions. It provides a conceptual foundation and an extensive set of powerful and coherent tools that make doing explict metaprogramming in C++ as easy and enjoyable as possible within the current language.
  • Multi-Array: Boost.MultiArray provides a generic N-dimensional array concept definition and common implementations of that interface.
  • Operators: Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators.
  • Optional: Discriminated-union wrapper for optional values.
  • Pool: Memory pool management.
  • Preprocessor: Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion.
  • Property Map: Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects.
  • Python: The Boost Python Library is a framework for interfacing Python and C++. It allows you to quickly and seamlessly expose C++ classes functions and objects to Python, and vice-versa, using no special tools -- just your C++ compiler.
  • Random: A complete system for random number generation.
  • Rational: A rational number class.
  • Ref: A utility library for passing references to generic functions.
  • Regex: Regular expression library.
  • Signals: Managed signals & slots callback implementation.
  • Smart Ptr: Smart pointer class templates.
  • Spirit: LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++.
  • Static Assert: Static assertions (compile time assertions).
  • Test: Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring.
  • Thread: Portable C++ multi-threading.
  • Timer: Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes.
  • Tokenizer: Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens.
  • Tuple: Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more.
  • Type Traits: Templates for fundamental properties of types.
  • uBLAS: uBLAS provides matrix and vector classes as well as basic linear algebra routines. Several dense, packed and sparse storage schemes are supported.
  • Utility: Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom.
  • Value Initialized: Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.
  • Variant: Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container.