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3<article xml:id="api" xreflabel="API">
4<?dbhtml filename="api.html"?>
5
6<title>The GNU C++ Library API Reference</title>
7
8<info>
9  <copyright>
10    <year>
11      2008
12    </year>
13    <year>
14      2010
15    </year>
16    <year>
17      2014
18    </year>
19    <holder>
20      <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.fsf.org">FSF
21      </link>
22    </holder>
23  </copyright>
24  <legalnotice>
25    <para>
26      <link linkend="manual.intro.status.license">License
27      </link>
28    </para>
29  </legalnotice>
30</info>
31
32<para>
33  The GNU C++ library sources have been specially formatted so that
34  with the proper invocation of another tool (Doxygen), a set of
35  indexed reference material can generated from the sources files
36  themselves. The resultant documentation is referred to as the API
37  documentation, and is useful for examining the signatures of public
38  member functions for the library classes, finding out what is in a
39  particular include file, looking at inheritance diagrams, etc.
40</para>
41
42<para>
43  The API documentation, rendered into HTML, can be viewed online
44  <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/">for each GCC release</link>
45  and
46  <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/latest-doxygen/index.html">
47  for the main development tree
48  </link>
49  (see the date on the first page).
50</para>
51
52<para>
53  The rendered HTML, as above, is also available for download on the
54  gcc.gnu.org site in a directory located at
55   <literal>&lt;URL:https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/libstdc++/doxygen/&gt;</literal>.
56   You will almost certainly need to use one of the
57   <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html">mirror sites</link> to download
58   the tarball. After unpacking, simply load libstdc++-html-*/index.html
59   into a browser.
60</para>
61
62<para>
63  In addition, a rendered set of man pages are available in the same
64  location specified above. Start with C++Intro(3).
65</para>
66
67</article>
68
69</book>
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