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<h2><a name="3">The GNU C++ Standard Library</a></h2>
<p>This documentation describes Apple's version of the GNU C++
Standard Library implementation, libstdc++. Information about using
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implementation capabilities, or known weaknesses in implementation
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<li>Library Introduction (Chapter 17)
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<li>Library Support (Chapter 18)
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<li><a href="18_support/howto.html#1">Types</a></li>
<li><a href="18_support/howto.html#2">Implementation properties</a></li>
<li><a href="18_support/howto.html#3">Start and Termination</a></li>
<li><a href="18_support/howto.html#4">Dynamic memory management</a></li>
<li><a href="18_support/howto.html#5">RTTI, the ABI, and demangling</a></li>
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<li>Diagnostics (Chapter 19)
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<li><a href="19_diagnostics/howto.html#1">Adding data to exceptions</a></li>
<li><a href="19_diagnostics/howto.html#2">Exception class hierarchy diagram</a></li>
<li><a href="19_diagnostics/howto.html#3">Concept checkers -- <strong>new and improved!</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="19_diagnostics/howto.html#4">Verbose <code>terminate</code></a></li>
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<li>General Utilities (Chapter 20)
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<li><a href="20_util/howto.html#1"><code>auto_ptr</code> is not omnipotent</a></li>
<li><a href="20_util/howto.html#2"><code>auto_ptr</code> inside container classes</a></li>
<li><a href="20_util/howto.html#3">Functors</a></li>
<li><a href="20_util/howto.html#4">Pairs</a></li>
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<li>Strings (Chapter 21)
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<li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#1">MFC's CString</a></li>
<li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#2">A case-insensitive string class</a></li>
<li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#3">Breaking a C++ string into tokens</a></li>
<li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#4">Simple transformations</a></li>
<li><a href="21_strings/howto.html#5">Making strings of arbitrary character types</a></li>
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<li>Localization (Chapter 22)
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<li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#1">class locale</a></li>
<li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#2">class codecvt</a></li>
<li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#3">class ctype</a></li>
<li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#4">class messages</a></li>
<li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#5">Bjarne Stroustrup on Locales</a></li>
<li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#6">Nathan Myers on Locales</a></li>
<li><a href="22_locale/howto.html#7">Correct Transformations</a></li>
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<li>Containers (Chapter 23)
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<li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#1">Making code unaware of the container/array difference</a></li>
<li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#2">Variable-sized bitmasks</a></li>
<li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#3">Containers and multithreading</a></li>
<li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#4">"Hinting" during insertion</a></li>
<li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#5">Bitmasks and string arguments</a></li>
<li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#6"><code>std::list::size()</code> is O(n)!</a></li>
<li><a href="23_containers/howto.html#7">Space overhead management for vectors</a></li>
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<li>Iterators (Chapter 24)
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<li><a href="24_iterators/howto.html#1">They ain't pointers!</a></li>
<li><a href="24_iterators/howto.html#2">It ends <em>where?</em></a></li>
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<li>Algorithms (Chapter 25)
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<li><a href="25_algorithms/howto.html#1">Prerequisites</a></li>
<li><a href="25_algorithms/howto.html#2">Special <code>swap</code>s</a></li>
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<li>Numerics (Chapter 26)
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<li><a href="26_numerics/howto.html#1">Complex Number Processing</a></li>
<li><a href="26_numerics/howto.html#2">Array Processing</a></li>
<li><a href="26_numerics/howto.html#3">Numerical Functions</a></li>
<li><a href="26_numerics/howto.html#4">C99</a></li>
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<li>Input/Output (Chapter 27)
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<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#1">Copying a file</a></li>
<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#2">The buffering is screwing up my program!</a></li>
<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#3">Binary I/O</a></li>
<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#5">What is this <sstream>/stringstreams thing?</a></li>
<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#6">Deriving a stream buffer</a></li>
<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#7">More on binary I/O</a></li>
<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#8">Pathetic performance? Ditch C.</a></li>
<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#9">Threads and I/O</a></li>
<li><a href="27_io/howto.html#10">Which header?</a></li>
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<li>Extensions to the Standard Library
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<li><a href="ext/howto.html#1">Ropes and trees and hashes, oh my!</a></li>
<li><a href="ext/howto.html#2">Added members and types</a></li>
<li><a href="ext/howto.html#3">Allocators (versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2)</a></li>
<li><a href="ext/howto.html#6">Allocators (version 3.3)</a></li>
<li><a href="ext/howto.html#4">Compile-time checks</a></li>
<li><a href="ext/howto.html#5">LWG Issues</a></li>
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