more — a C++ library

Synopsis

more is a multipurpose library designed to integrate well with the standard C++ library. It contains

• STL related things like closures, lambda expressions, additional containers, algorithms and iterators.
• Code generation-compilation-linking, interpreted function calls, and access to structure members based on runtime destriptions.
• Mathematics, quantum mechanics and (nuclear) physics, including spinors, half integer fractions and an ENSDF (Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File) fetcher and parser (see report).
• More. See the namespace descriptions in the reference manual.

Since the library covers several topics, it is clearly separated into modules by using namespaces and parallel #include paths.

I recommend that you also have a look at some related libraries which complements this one:

• The boost library contains many well-written generic pieces with documentation.
• The GNU Common C++ library is good at system interfaces.
• Object Oriented Numerics has usuful links to numerics related libraries.

Status

The features of the library are frozen, but I will fix bugs when discovered or reported.

Availability

The library is available for download or CVS checkout at its SourceForge.net project page http://sourceforge.net/projects/more.

The main documentation is generated from the source code using Doxygen. Online snapshot:

• Reference Manual

The following documents are no longer maintained, but may be useful anyway:

• Extensions to STL
• Tools for Template Metaprogramming

Requirements

The library requires a C++ compliant compiler with library and a POSIX interface to the opreating system. It is developed using GCC and requires version 3.0 or above (due to the library). For full functionality the following libraries should also be available:

• The Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage Collector from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/. You must provide the location to this library to configure using the option --with-bdwgc=DIR as this package does not install its include files.
• The Foreign Function Interface available at http://sources.redhat.com/libffi/ or from the GCC source tree is used to access structures and functions based on runtime desctriptions. The library is fully functional without libffi, but in that case function interfaces will be compiled on the fly. This takes more time the first time a prototype is used, but once the interface is generated, it is faster than libffi.
• The cURC library from http://curl.haxx.se/ is needed to fetch ENSDF (nuclear structure) data.