Acknowledgments

Special thanks go to my technical reviewers: Ron Natalie, Uwe Schnitker, and Bruce Krell. Their corrections and suggestions have greatly improved this book.

I posted early drafts of this book to my web site, and solicited comments. David Cattarin and Roshan Naik were especially helpful. I thank everyone who also provided comments: David Abrahams, Frank Brown, Cyrille Chepelov, Jerry Coffin, Buster Copley, Gerhard Doeppert, Nicolas Fleury, Jarrod Hollingworth, James Kanze, Michael Kochetkov, Clare Macrae, Thomas Maeder, Brian McAndrews, Jeff Raft, Allan Ramacher, Torsten Robitzki, and John Spicer.

Thanks to Comeau Computing, Dinkumware, Metrowerks, Borland, and Microsoft for giving me free versions of their compilers and libraries to use while preparing this book. Thanks also to Intel for making its compiler freely available to download for evaluation purposes. I thank VMware for licenses to its virtual machine software.

I thank my editor, Jonathan Gennick, for his patience and advice.

Most of all, I thank my wife, Cheryl, and my son, Arthur, for their love and support, without which I could not have written this book.