Introduction to the GNU C++ Library

last updated April 29, 1992, for version 2.0

• GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
• GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  • Preamble
  • How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
• Contributors to GNU C++ library
• Installing GNU C++ library
• Trouble in Installation
• GNU C++ library aims, objectives, and limitations
• GNU C++ library stylistic conventions
• Support for representation invariants
• Introduction to container class prototypes
  • Example
• Variable-Sized Object Representation
• Some guidelines for using expression-oriented classes
• Pseudo-indexes
• Header files for interfacing C++ to C
• Utility functions for built in types
• Library dynamic allocation primitives
• The old I/O library
  • File-based classes
  • Basic IO
  • File Control
  • File Status
• The Obstack class
• The AllocRing class
• The String class
  • Constructors
  • Examples
  • Comparing, Searching and Matching
  • Substring extraction
  • Concatenation
  • Other manipulations
  • Reading, Writing and Conversion
• The Integer class.
• The Rational Class
• The Complex class.
• Fixed precision numbers
• Classes for Bit manipulation
  • BitSet
  • BitString
• Random Number Generators and related classes
  • RNG
  • ACG
  • MLCG
  • Random
  • Binomial
  • Erlang
  • Geometric
  • HyperGeometric
  • NegativeExpntl
  • Normal
  • LogNormal
  • Poisson
  • DiscreteUniform
  • Uniform
  • Weibull
  • RandomInteger
• Data Collection
  • SampleStatistic
  • SampleHistogram
• Curses-based classes
• List classes
  • Constructors and assignment
  • List status
  • heads and tails
  • Constructive operations
  • Destructive operations
  • Other operations
• Linked Lists
  • Doubly linked lists
• Vector classes
  • Constructors and assignment
  • Status and access
  • Constructive operations
  • Destructive operations
  • Other operations
  • AVec operations.
• Plex classes
• Stacks
• Queues
• Double ended Queues
• Priority Queue class prototypes.
• Set class prototypes
• Bag class prototypes
• Map Class Prototypes
• C++ version of the GNU getopt function
• Projects and other things left to do
  • Coming Attractions
  • Wish List
  • How to contribute