The Support Kit

The Support Kit contains classes and utilities that any application can take advantage of--regardless of what kind of application it is or what it does. Among other things, it includes:

• The BArchivable protocol for objects that can archive themselves and be instantiated from their archives.

• The BList class, a container for keeping track of a number of data items, typically object pointers.

• The BLocker and BAutolock classes for implementing locking mechanisms.

• The BDataIO and BPositionIO protocols for objects that can be read and written, and the BMemoryIO and BMallocIO classes that implement the protocols.

• The BFlattenable protocol for objects that can write themselves to a flattened representation.

• Debugging tools, including the BStopWatch class.

• Common defined types and constants, such as int32 and int64.

• The error codes for all the software kits.

• Type codes for identifying data types in messages, attributes, and resources.

• Utility functions such as atomic_add(), write_16_swap(), and convert_to_utf8().

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