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The Second Edition of the book is now available!

For more information, please see STL Resources at Rensselaer. The information on this page refers to the first edition:

Source Code Resources for

STL Tutorial and Reference Guide:
C++ Programming with the Standard Template Library

By David R. Musser and Atul Saini
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series
ISBN 0-201-63398-1 * Hardcover * 432 pages * ©1996

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Source Code Resources

In this book all major and most minor points are illustrated with actual code examples, more than 80 small programs in all. The source code for all of these programs is available here, either for individual program viewing or all together in a compressed archive file for downloading. (This file and others mentioned below are available in three compression/archive formats; see the README file for details.)

Dictionary file

Several of the programs in Part II of the book use a file containing a dictionary of English words. You can use the programs with your own dictionary file if you have one, or download the 20,159-word dictionary file with which the programs were tested.

String class source file

Another useful source code file is bstring.h, the header file for the string class used in many of the example programs (donated by Modena Software Inc.). This class satisfies most of the requirements for the string class specified by the ANSI/ISO Draft Standard for C++, but is not completely up to date with more recent changes in the Standard.

STL source code

Finally, the October 31, 1995 final release of the Hewlett-Packard STL implementation is also available here. It has been modified slightly to compile well with several major compilers, as described in the next section.

STL-Compatible Compilers

The book's examples, bstring.h, and STL source code (the modified version available at the RPI site) have all been tested successfully with the following compilers:

The examples and bstring.h have also been tested with the Free Software Foundation's compiler,

which is available on many platforms and comes with its own adaptation of HP STL. All of the example programs compile and execute properly with this version except Examples 5-9, 6-9, 13-1, 14-1, and 16-1.

Other compilers that have been reported to be able to compile STL include DEC C++ 5.0, EDG C++ front-end 2.29 (several compilers based on it), IBM VisualAge C++ 3.0, Kuck and Associates' Photon C++, Metrowerk's Codewarrior 7, Rational Apex C/C++ 2.0.6 , SGI C++ 4.0, Sun C++ 4.1, Symantec C++ 7.2, Watcom C++ 10.5. For further information on STL-compatibility of these and other compilers, see The STL-Compatible Compilers List and The STL Resource List, both maintained by Warren Young.


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