Hi,

is some documentation on the standard C++ classes available on the
net. I guess there must be some. If there is a HTML version I would
prefer that.

Thanks in advance

 -Mike



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Hi,
Michael Hermann (hermann@piligrim.fmi.uni-passau.de) wrote:
: is some documentation on the standard C++ classes available on the
: net. I guess there must be some. If there is a HTML version I would
: prefer that.

You can get the DWP online (see the comp.lang.c++ FAQ for further
information about this) but whether this can be considered
"documentation" is a different issue: Once you got used to it, it is
relatively easy to use. Other than this, you might have a look at the
documentation of libg++ (see the FAQ for gnu.gcc.help for information
where to get this). However, it does not cover the whole standard C++
library.

For documentation of the whole standard C++ library, I know only two
references:
- "The (Draft) Standard C++ Library", P.J.Plauger, Prentice Hall. This
  is somewhat out of date (e.g. it does not cover STL, the newer
  IOStream features, and locales) but it gives the necessary
  information to make sense of what is found in the DWP.
- "Die C++ Standardbibliothek", N.Josuttis, Addison-Wesley: This book
  covers the latest version of the WP available (not publically,
  though).  This will potentially change a little with the next WP
  becoming available (which will be publically available). The major
  drawback is that it is written in German (well, this is no problem
  for me and probably, looking at your e-mail address no problem for
  you).

There are some books covering excerpts of the standard C++ library:
- "The Standard C Library", P.J.Plauger, Prentice Hall: This book
  covers the subset of the standard C++ library inherited from C. There
  are several other books covering this material but I like the
  approach taken in this book (and in the other one by Plauger
  mentioned above) to view it from a library implementors perspective:
  Both books include an implementation of all functions/classes
  described.
- "STL Tutorial and Reference Guide", D.Musser & A.Saini,
   Addison-Wesley, describes the portion of the standard C++ library
   often referred to as "Standard Template Library"

There are some other books also covering parts of the standard C++
library but those listed above are those I use.
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Michael Hermann wrote:

> is some documentation on the standard C++ classes available on the

> net ...?



Here is the draft standard which includes the description of the

standard library (chapters 17 to 27):

http://www.research.att.com/c++


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