Table of Contents

1. Boost.Any

Introduction

Examples

Reference

Acknowledgements

2. Boost.Array

Introduction

Reference

Design Rationale

For more information...

Acknowledgements

3. Boost.Concept_Check

Concept reference

4. Boost.Date_Time

Conceptual

General Usage Examples

Gregorian

Posix Time

Local Time

Date Time Input/Output

Serialization

Details

Examples

Library Reference

5. Boost.Foreach

Introduction

Extensibility

Portability

Pitfalls

History and Acknowledgements

6. Boost.Function

Introduction

History & Compatibility Notes

Tutorial

Reference

Frequently Asked Questions

Miscellaneous Notes

Testsuite

7. Boost.Functional/Hash

Introduction

Tutorial

Extending boost::hash for a custom data type

Combining hash values

Portability

Disabling The Extensions

Change Log

Reference

Links

Acknowledgements

8. Boost.Interprocess

Introduction

Quick Guide for the Impatient

Some basic explanations

Sharing memory between processes

Mapping Address Independent Pointer: offset_ptr

Synchronization mechanisms

Managed Memory Segments

Allocators, containers and memory allocation algorithms

Direct iostream formatting: vectorstream and bufferstream

Ownership smart pointers

Architecture and internals

Customizing Boost.Interprocess

Acknowledgements, notes and links

Boost.Interprocess Reference

9. Boost.Intrusive

Introduction

Intrusive and non-intrusive containers

How to use Boost.Intrusive

When to use?

Concept summary

Presenting Boost.Intrusive containers

Safe hooks

Auto-unlink hooks

Intrusive singly linked list: slist

Intrusive doubly linked list: list

Intrusive associative containers: set, multiset, rbtree

Pseudo-Intrusive unordered associative containers: unordered_set, unordered_multiset

Intrusive splay tree based associative containers: splay_set, splay_multiset and , splay_tree

Intrusive avl tree based associative containers: avl_set, avl_multiset and avltree

Intrusive scapegoat tree based associative containers: sg_set, sg_multiset and sgtree

Advanced lookup and insertion functions for associative containers

Erasing and disposing values from Boost.Intrusive containers

Cloning Boost.Intrusive containers

Using smart pointers with Boost.Intrusive containers

Obtaining iterators from values

Concepts explained

Node algorithms with custom NodeTraits

Containers with custom ValueTraits

Thread safety guarantees

Obtaining the same types and reducing symbol length

Design Notes

Performance

Disabling exceptions support

Tested compilers

References

Acknowledgements

Reference

License notices

10. Boost.Lambda

In a nutshell

Getting Started

Introduction

Using the library

Lambda expressions in details

Extending return type deduction system

Practical considerations

Relation to other Boost libraries

Contributors

Bibliography

11. Boost.MPI

Introduction

Getting started

Tutorial

Reference

Python Bindings

Design Philosophy

Performance Evaluation

Revision History

Acknowledgments

12. Boost.Program_options

Introduction

Tutorial

Library Overview

How To

Design Discussion

Acknowledgements

Reference

13. Boost.Ref

Introduction

Reference

Acknowledgements

14. Boost.Signals

Introduction

Tutorial

Reference

Design Overview

Design Rationale

Testsuite

15. Boost.StaticAssert

Overview and Tutorial

How it works

Test Programs

16. Boost String Algorithms Library

Introduction

Release Notes

Usage

Quick Reference

Design Topics

Concepts

Reference

Rationale

Environment

Credits

17. Thread

Overview

Changes since boost 1.34

Thread Management

Synchronization

Thread Local Storage

Acknowledgments

18. Boost.TR1

Introduction

Usage

Configuration

TR1 By Subject

TR By Subject: Unsupported Features

TR1 By Header

Implementation

Testing

19. Boost.Tribool

Introduction

Tutorial

Reference

Testsuite

20. Boost.Typeof

Motivation

Tutorial

Reference

Other considerations and tips

Contributed By:

Acknowledgements

21. Boost.Variant

Introduction

Tutorial

Reference

Design Overview

Miscellaneous Notes

References

22. Boost.Xpressive

Preface

User's Guide

Reference

Acknowledgments

Appendices