The GNU C++ Standard Library

This documentation describes Apple's version of the GNU C++ Standard Library implementation, libstdc++. Information about using libstdc++, including GNU- and Apple-specific extensions, implementation capabilities, or known weaknesses in implementation are described here. This documentation is organized by chapters, where the chapter number references the associated chapter of the ANSI/ISO C++ standard.

• Library Introduction (Chapter 17)
  • The Standard C++ header files
  • Debugging uses of the standard library
  • The Standard C++ library and multithreading
  • <foo> vs <foo.h>
  • Porting HOWTO
  • Behavior specific to libstdc++-v3
  • Preprocessor macros controlling the library
• Library Support (Chapter 18)
  • Types
  • Implementation properties
  • Start and Termination
  • Dynamic memory management
  • RTTI, the ABI, and demangling
• Diagnostics (Chapter 19)
  • Adding data to exceptions
  • Exception class hierarchy diagram
  • Concept checkers -- new and improved!
  • Verbose terminate
• General Utilities (Chapter 20)
  • auto_ptr is not omnipotent
  • auto_ptr inside container classes
  • Functors
  • Pairs
• Strings (Chapter 21)
  • MFC's CString
  • A case-insensitive string class
  • Breaking a C++ string into tokens
  • Simple transformations
  • Making strings of arbitrary character types
• Localization (Chapter 22)
  • class locale
  • class codecvt
  • class ctype
  • class messages
  • Bjarne Stroustrup on Locales
  • Nathan Myers on Locales
  • Correct Transformations
• Containers (Chapter 23)
  • Making code unaware of the container/array difference
  • Variable-sized bitmasks
  • Containers and multithreading
  • "Hinting" during insertion
  • Bitmasks and string arguments
  • std::list::size() is O(n)!
  • Space overhead management for vectors
• Iterators (Chapter 24)
  • They ain't pointers!
  • It ends where?
• Algorithms (Chapter 25)
  • Prerequisites
  • Special swaps
• Numerics (Chapter 26)
  • Complex Number Processing
  • Array Processing
  • Numerical Functions
  • C99
• Input/Output (Chapter 27)
  • Copying a file
  • The buffering is screwing up my program!
  • Binary I/O
  • What is this <sstream>/stringstreams thing?
  • Deriving a stream buffer
  • More on binary I/O
  • Pathetic performance? Ditch C.
  • Threads and I/O
  • Which header?
• Extensions to the Standard Library
  • Ropes and trees and hashes, oh my!
  • Added members and types
  • Allocators (versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2)
  • Allocators (version 3.3)
  • Compile-time checks
  • LWG Issues
  • Debugging containers

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