Overview

Boost.Buffers is a portable, low-level C++ library which provides containers and algorithms for describing contiguous buffers of arbitrary bytes.

Boost.Buffers offers these features:

Require only C++11
Works without exceptions
Fast compilation, few templates
Does not require Asio

Requirements

Requires Boost and a compiler supporting at least C++11
Aliases for standard types use their Boost equivalents
Link to a built static or dynamic Boost library, or use header-only (see below)
Supports -fno-exceptions, detected automatically

To use the library as header-only; that is, to eliminate the requirement to link a program to a static or dynamic Boost.URL library, simply place the following line in exactly one source file in your project.

#include <boost/buffers/src.hpp>

Embedded

Boost.Buffers works great on embedded devices. It is designed to work without exceptions if desired.

Supported Compilers

Boost.Buffers has been tested with the following compilers:

clang: 3.8, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
gcc: 4.8, 4.9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
msvc: 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

Quality Assurance

The development infrastructure for the library includes these per-commit analyses:

Coverage reports
Compilation and tests on Drone.io

Credits

This library is based on concepts and code developed by Christopher Kohlhoff and published in Boost.Asio.