ict is a small set of openly available reusable components originally developed and used by Intrig for its next-generation message decoding engine. They are a result of countless hours of programming missteps, restarts, and refactoring.
The goal of ict is to provide useful independent components with a natural, simple interface enabling you to concentrate on your task at hand, not wrestle with the tools you are using. The only dependency is the standard template library.
The header files contain the complete implementation so you will not need to compile any source files. ict is released under the permissive MIT license.
Initially, two components are available, with more to come: ict::bitstring and ict::multivector. Below is a brief
description and links to their respective documentation.
Everything here is a work in progress. Nothing is a complete implementation. There are definitely gaps in the features provided. We tend to only implement the functionality we need. Hopefully you will find ways to contribute the things you need also.
A bitstring provides a way to access arbitrarily sized data at a bit level. Bitstrings smaller than 64
bits require no memory allocation. Functions are provided to convert bitstrings to and from ASCII hex or binary strings
and integers. Corresponding input and output streams for bits are provided with ict::ibitstream and
ict::obitstream. This enables you to easily dissect or catenate bitstrings without being concerned with byte
alignment.
A multivector is a generic container that behaves just like a std::vector except its iterators also
behave just like std::vector. And since std::vector is used in the underlying representation, we can make
heirarchies that benefit from both cache friendly locality of reference and C++11 move semantics.
Although using the tools does not require any source files, running the unit tests does. Just type make at the top
level to invoke the cmake based build system. And make test will run the unit tests.