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33 Allocators Classes encapsulating memory allocation schemes.
34 Arithmetic_functors Functors for basic math.
35 Assoc_containers Key-based containers.
36 Binder_functors Functors which "remember" an argument.
37 Comparison_functors Functors wrapping built-in comparisons.
38 Containers An introduction to container classes.
39 Func_ptr_functors Functors for use with pointers to functions.
41 Intro_functors An introduction to function objects, or functors.
42 Iterator_types Programatically distinguishing iterators/pointers.
43 Logical_functors Functors wrapping the Boolean operations.
44 Member_ptr_functor Functors for use with pointers to members.
45 Namespace_Std A listing of the contents of std::.
46 Negation_functors Functors which negate their contents.
47 SGIextensions A list of the extensions from the SGI STL subset.
48 Sequences Linear containers.
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59 <algorithm> <csignal> <iomanip> <ostream>
60 <bitset> <cstdarg> <ios> <queue>
61 <cassert> <cstddef> <iosfwd> <set>
62 <cctype> <cstdio> <iostream> <sstream>
63 <cerrno> <cstdlib> <istream> <stack>
64 <cfloat> <cstring> <iterator> <stdexcept>
65 <ciso>646 <ctime> <limits> <streambuf>
66 <climits> <cwchar> <list> <string>
67 <clocale> <cwctype> <locale> <utility>
68 <cmath> <deque> <map> <valarray>
69 <complex> <fstream> <memory> <vector>
70 <csetjmp> <functional> <numeric>
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80 <algo.h> <hash_map.h> <map.h> <slist.h>
81 <algobase.h> <hash_set.h> <multimap.h> <stack.h>
82 <alloc.h> <hashtable.h> <multiset.h> <stream.h>
83 <bvector.h> <heap.h> <new.h> <streambuf.h>
84 <complex.h> <iomanip.h> <ostream.h> <strstream>
85 <defalloc.h> <iostream.h> <pair.h> <strstream.h>
86 <deque.h> <istream.h> <queue.h> <tempbuf.h>
87 <fstream.h> <iterator.h> <rope.h> <tree.h>
88 <function.h> <list.h> <set.h> <vector.h>
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98 <ext/algorithm> <ext/hash_set> <ext/numeric> <ext/slist>
99 <ext/functional> <ext/iterator> <ext/rb_tree>
100 <ext/hash_map> <ext/memory> <ext/rope>
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