About this Reference

Watcom C++ is an implementation of the C++ programming language. In addition to the C++ draft standard, the compiler supports numerous extensions for the PC environment.

This manual describes the Watcom C++ Class Libraries for DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows NT, Windows 95, 16-bit OS/2 1.x, 32-bit OS/2, and QNX. It includes a String Class, a Complex Class, Container Classes, and an I/O Stream hierarchy of classes. The Container classes include a set of intrusive, value and pointer list classes with their associated iterators.

This reference includes the following sections:

• an overview of the C++ class library, including header files and common types
• the Complex class
• Container Exception classes
• Hash Containers
• Hash Iterators
• List Containers
• List Iterators
• Queue Container
• Skip List Containers
• Stack Container
• Vector classes
• I/O classes
• the String class

This online version includes corrections and changes that aren't in the printed manual.