Learning Boost C++ Libraries

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words and C++ language keywords in text are shown as follows: "We pass the number of bytes returned by async_receive to the handler."

Folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, include file names in text are shown as follows: "The header file boost/asio.hpp includes most of the types and functions required for using the Asio library".

A block of code is set as follows:

46 int main() {
47   asio::io_service service;
48   UDPAsyncServer server(service, 55000);
49
50   boost::thread_group pool;
51 pool.create_thread([&service] { service.run(); }); ...