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Chapter 1. Boost.TypeTraits

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Background and Tutorial

Type Traits by Category

Type Traits that Describe the Properties of a Type

Categorizing a Type
General Type Properties
Relationships Between Two Types
Operator Type Traits

Type Traits that Transform One Type to Another

Synthesizing Types with Specific Alignments

Decomposing Function Types

User Defined Specializations

Support for Compiler Intrinsics

MPL Interoperability

An Optimized Version of std::copy
An Optimised Version of std::fill
An Example that Omits Destructor Calls For Types with Trivial Destructors
An improved Version of std::iter_swap
Convert Numeric Types and Enums to double
Improving std::min with common_type

Alphabetical Reference

Class Index

Typedef Index

Macro Index

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