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Boost 1.63.0 Library Documentation - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Conversion

Polymorphic casts.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.20.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
Convert

An extendible and configurable type-conversion framework.

Author(s)
Vladimir Batov
First Release
1.59.0
Categories
Miscellaneous, String and text processing
Core

A collection of simple core utilities with minimal dependencies.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes and Andrey Semashev
First Release
1.56.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
Endian

Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.58.0
Categories
Input/Output, Math and numerics, Miscellaneous
Lexical Cast

General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa.

Author(s)
Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.20.0
Categories
Miscellaneous, String and text processing
Log

Logging library.

Author(s)
Andrey Semashev
First Release
1.54.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
Predef

This library defines a set of compiler, architecture, operating system, library, and other version numbers from the information it can gather of C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ predefined macros or those defined in generally available headers.

Author(s)
Rene Rivera
First Release
1.55.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
Program Options

The program_options library allows program developers to obtain program options, that is (name, value) pairs from the user, via conventional methods such as command line and config file.

Author(s)
Vladimir Prus
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Input/Output, Miscellaneous
Swap

Enhanced generic swap function.

Author(s)
Joseph Gauterin
First Release
1.38.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
ThrowException

A common infrastructure for throwing exceptions from Boost libraries.

Author(s)
Emil Dotchevski
First Release
1.56.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
Timer

Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.9.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
TR1 (deprecated)

The TR1 library provides an implementation of the C++ Technical Report on Standard Library Extensions. This library does not itself implement the TR1 components, rather it's a thin wrapper that will include your standard library's TR1 implementation (if it has one), otherwise it will include the Boost Library equivalents, and import them into namespace std::tr1.

Author(s)
John Maddock
First Release
1.34.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
Tribool

3-state boolean type library.

Author(s)
Doug Gregor
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Miscellaneous
Utility

Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and others
First Release
1.13.0
Categories
Algorithms, Function objects and higher-order programming, Memory, Miscellaneous, Patterns and Idioms
Value Initialized

Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.

Author(s)
Fernando Cacciola
First Release
1.9.0
Categories
Miscellaneous