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Boost 1.34.1 Library Documentation - Data structures

Data structures

Any

Safe, generic container for single values of different value types.

Author(s)
Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.23.0
Categories
Data structures
Compressed Pair

Empty member optimization.

Author(s)
John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al
First Release
1.13.0
Categories
Data structures, Patterns and Idioms
Multi-Index

The Boost Multi-index Containers Library provides a class template named multi_index_container which enables the construction of containers maintaining one or more indices with different sorting and access semantics.

Author(s)
Joaquín M López Muñoz
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Pointer Container

Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming.

Author(s)
Thorsten Ottosen
First Release
1.33.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Tuple

Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more.

Author(s)
Jaakko Järvi
First Release
1.24.0
Categories
Data structures
Variant

Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container.

Author(s)
Eric Friedman and Itay Maman
First Release
1.31.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures