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# Boost Libraries

- any - Safe, generic container for single values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.
- array - STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from Nicolai Josuttis.
- call_traits - Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
- compatibility - Help for non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer.
- compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL, from Nicolai Josuttis.
- compressed_pair - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
- concept check - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.
- config - Helps boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.
- conversion - Numeric, polymorphic, and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.
- crc - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle Walker.
- function - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor
- functional - Enhanced function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.
- graph - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team.
- integer - Headers to ease dealing with integral types.
- iterator adaptors - Adapt a base type into a standard conforming iterator, and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and John Potter.
- math/octonion - Octonions, from Hubert Holin.
- math/quaterion - Quaterions, from Hubert Holin.
- math/special_functions - Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc, from Hubert Holin.
- operators - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.
- pool - Memory pool management, from Steve Cleary.
- property map - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.
- python - Reflects C++ classes and functions into Python, from Dave Abrahams.
- random - A complete system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.
- rational - A rational number class, from Paul Moore.
- regex - Regular expression library, from John Maddock.
- smart_ptr - Four smart pointer classes, from Greg Colvin and Beman Dawes.
- static_assert - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.
- test - Support for program testing and execution, from Beman Dawes.
- timer - Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman Dawes.
- tokenizer - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.
- tuple - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more, from Jaakko Järvi.
- type_traits - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.
- utility - Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior(), and tie() function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others.

See Compiler Status to find out what library works with which compiler.

See Header Dependencies to find out what other headers each boost header includes.

See Download and Installation to find out how to download and install the libraries.

See Building Boost Libraries to find out how to build object libraries, when needed.

## Obsolete Libraries

- min_rand - a random number generator class from Beman Dawes. Replaced by random.

## Beta Libraries

- array_traits - tools to treat built-in arrays more like STL containers from Dietmar Kühl. Also see array.
- dir_it - A set of file system directory level iterators from Dietmar Kühl.
- heaps - a heap of priority queues from Dietmar Kühl.

Revised 19 Aug 2001