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Professional C++, 3rd Edition
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Professional C++, 3rd Edition

by Marc Gregoire
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
984 pages
25h 22m
English
Wrox
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Chapter 20Customizing and Extending the STL

  • Explaining allocators
  • Explaining iterator adapters and how to use the standard iterator adapters
  • How to extend the STL
  • How to write your own algorithms
  • How to write your own containers
  • How to write your own iterators

Please note that all the code examples for this chapter are available as a part of this chapter’s code download on the book’s website at www.wrox.com/go/proc++3e on the Download Code tab.

The previous chapters show that the STL is a powerful general-purpose collection of containers and algorithms. The information covered so far should be sufficient for most applications. However, those chapters show only the basic functionality of the library. The STL can be customized and extended however you like. For example, you can apply iterators to input and output streams; write your own containers, algorithms, and iterators; and even specify your own memory allocation schemes for containers to use. This chapter provides a taste of these advanced features, primarily through the development of a new STL container: the hash_map.

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