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  24 <h2><a name="1">Introduction</a></h2>
  25    <p>This is a short list of text files pertaining to this implementation of
  26       ISO 14882.  A brief description may follow the name of the file.
  27    </p>
  28       <ul>
  29          <li><a href="17_intro/COPYING">License</a>
  30          - GPL v2 license terms</li>
  31          <li><a href="abi.txt">ABI Policy and Guidelines</a></li>
  32          <li><a href="17_intro/BUGS">BUGS</a></li>
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  37          <li>README - directory structure</li>
  38          <li><a href="17_intro/RELEASE-NOTES">RELEASE-NOTES</a>
  39          - latest version info, recent changes and news</li>
  40          <li><a href="17_intro/TODO">TODO</a>
  41          - tasks yet undone</li>
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  46 <h2><a name="2">Configuring, Building, Installing</a></h2>
  47 <ul>
  48    <li><a href="configopts.html">Configure options</a></li>
  49    <li><a href="install.html">Getting started: configure, build, install</a>
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  56 <h2><a name="4">Source-Level Documentation</a></h2>
  57 <p>The library sources have been specially formatted so that with the
  58    proper invocation of another tool (Doxygen), a set of HTML pages
  59    are generated from the sources files themselves.  The resultant
  60    documentation is referred to as Source-Level Documentation, and is
  61    useful for examining the signatures of public member functions for
  62    the library classes, finding out what is in a particular include
  63    file, looking at inheritance diagrams, etc.
  64 </p>
  65 <p>The Source-Level documentation can be viewed online:</p>
  66 <ul>
  67    <li><a href="libstdc++-html-USERS-3.1/index.html">for the 3.1 release</a>
  68    </li>
  69    <li><a href="libstdc++-html-USERS-3.2/index.html">for the 3.2.x release</a>
  70    </li>
  71    <li><a href="latest-doxygen/index.html">&quot;the latest collection&quot;</a>
  72        (for the snapshot or later; see the date on the first page)
  73    </li>
  74 </ul>
  75 <p>This generated HTML collection, as above, is also available for download in
  76    the libstdc++ snapshots directory at
  77    <code>&lt;URL:ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/libstdc++/doxygen/&gt;</code>.
  78    You will almost certainly need to use one of the <a
  79    href="http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html">mirror sites</a> to download
  80    the tarball.  After unpacking, simply load
  81    libstdc++-html-*/index.html into a browser.  Feedback (and
  82    additional documentation!) is welcome.
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  84 <p>
  85  In addition, an initial set of man pages are also available in the
  86  same place as the HTML collections.  Start with Intro(3).
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  91 <br />
  92 <h2><a name="3">Chapter-Specific Documentation</a></h2>
  93 <p>Information, extensions, notes and advice on specific implementation
  94    capabilites and/or liabilities broken down into chapter names based on the
  95    C++ standard.
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 105    <li>Library Introduction (Chapter 17)
 106    <ul>
 107      <li><a href="17_intro/howto.html#2">The Standard C++ header files</a></li>
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 116    <li>Library Support (Chapter 18)
 117    <ul>
 118      <li><a href="18_support/howto.html#1">Types</a></li>
 119      <li><a href="18_support/howto.html#2">Implementation properties</a></li>
 120      <li><a href="18_support/howto.html#3">Start and Termination</a></li>
 121      <li><a href="18_support/howto.html#4">Dynamic memory management</a></li>
 122      <li><a href="18_support/howto.html#5">RTTI, the ABI, and demangling</a></li>
 123    </ul>
 124    </li>
 125
 126    <li>Diagnostics (Chapter 19)
 127    <ul>
 128      <li><a href="19_diagnostics/howto.html#1">Adding data to exceptions</a></li>
 129      <li><a href="19_diagnostics/howto.html#2">Exception class hierarchy diagram</a></li>
 130      <li><a href="19_diagnostics/howto.html#3">Concept checkers -- <strong>new and improved!</strong></a></li>
 131      <li><a href="19_diagnostics/howto.html#4">Verbose <code>terminate</code></a></li>
 132    </ul>
 133    </li>
 134
 135    <li>General Utilities (Chapter 20)
 136    <ul>
 137      <li><a href="20_util/howto.html#1"><code>auto_ptr</code> is not omnipotent</a></li>
 138      <li><a href="20_util/howto.html#2"><code>auto_ptr</code> inside container classes</a></li>
 139      <li><a href="20_util/howto.html#3">Functors</a></li>
 140      <li><a href="20_util/howto.html#4">Pairs</a></li>
 141    </ul>
 142    </li>
 143
 144    <li>Strings (Chapter 21)
 145    <ul>
 146      <li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#1">MFC's CString</a></li>
 147      <li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#2">A case-insensitive string class</a></li>
 148      <li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#3">Breaking a C++ string into tokens</a></li>
 149      <li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#4">Simple transformations</a></li>
 150      <li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#5">Making strings of arbitrary character types</a></li>
 151    </ul>
 152    </li>
 153
 154    <li>Localization (Chapter 22)
 155    <ul>
 156      <li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#1">class locale</a></li>
 157      <li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#2">class codecvt</a></li>
 158      <li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#3">class ctype</a></li>
 159      <li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#4">class messages</a></li>
 160      <li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#5">Bjarne Stroustrup on Locales</a></li>
 161      <li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#6">Nathan Myers on Locales</a></li>
 162      <li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#7">Correct Transformations</a></li>
 163    </ul>
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 165
 166    <li>Containers (Chapter 23)
 167    <ul>
 168      <li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#1">Making code unaware of the container/array difference</a></li>
 169      <li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#2">Variable-sized bitmasks</a></li>
 170      <li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#3">Containers and multithreading</a></li>
 171      <li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#4">&quot;Hinting&quot; during insertion</a></li>
 172      <li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#5">Bitmasks and string arguments</a></li>
 173      <li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#6"><code>std::list::size()</code> is O(n)!</a></li>
 174      <li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#7">Space overhead management for vectors</a></li>
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 176    </li>
 177
 178    <li>Iterators (Chapter 24)
 179    <ul>
 180      <li><a href="24_iterators/howto.html#1">They ain't pointers!</a></li>
 181      <li><a href="24_iterators/howto.html#2">It ends <em>where?</em></a></li>
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 183    </li>
 184
 185    <li>Algorithms (Chapter 25)
 186    <ul>
 187      <li><a href="25_algorithms/howto.html#1">Prerequisites</a></li>
 188      <li><a href="25_algorithms/howto.html#2">Special <code>swap</code>s</a></li>
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 190    </li>
 191
 192    <li>Numerics (Chapter 26)
 193    <ul>
 194      <li><a href="26_numerics/howto.html#1">Complex Number Processing</a></li>
 195      <li><a href="26_numerics/howto.html#2">Array Processing</a></li>
 196      <li><a href="26_numerics/howto.html#3">Numerical Functions</a></li>
 197      <li><a href="26_numerics/howto.html#4">C99</a></li>
 198    </ul>
 199    </li>
 200
 201    <li>Input/Output (Chapter 27)
 202    <ul>
 203      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#1">Copying a file</a></li>
 204      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#2">The buffering is screwing up my program!</a></li>
 205      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#3">Binary I/O</a></li>
 206      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#5">What is this &lt;sstream&gt;/stringstreams thing?</a></li>
 207      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#6">Deriving a stream buffer</a></li>
 208      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#7">More on binary I/O</a></li>
 209      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#8">Pathetic performance?  Ditch C.</a></li>
 210      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#9">Threads and I/O</a></li>
 211      <li><a href="27_io/howto.html#10">Which header?</a></li>
 212    </ul>
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 215    <li>Extensions to the Standard Library
 216    <ul>
 217      <li><a href="ext/howto.html#1">Ropes and trees and hashes, oh my!</a></li>
 218      <li><a href="ext/howto.html#2">Added members and types</a></li>
 219      <li><a href="ext/howto.html#3">Allocators (versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2)</a></li>
 220      <li><a href="ext/howto.html#6">Allocators (version 3.3)</a></li>
 221      <li><a href="ext/howto.html#4">Compile-time checks</a></li>
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 237    <li><a href="17_intro/C++STYLE">C++STYLE</a>
 238        - coding style by example</li>
 239    <li><a href="17_intro/CHECKLIST">CHECKLIST</a>
 240        - a list of required features and their status.</li>
 241    <li><a href="17_intro/DESIGN">DESIGN</a>
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