tboox/tbox
Tbox
Tbox is a comprehensive collection of low-level utility libraries and toolkits for portable C development. It provides a multi-platform C utility library that serves as a lightweight replacement for standard libraries, offering optimized memory management and system abstractions to ensure hardware compatibility across different operating systems.
The project distinguishes itself through a specialized framework of standardized data containers, including hash tables, vectors, and linked lists with integrated searching and sorting. It further provides a dedicated toolkit for networking and serialization, managing HTTP requests, SSL encryption, and data conversion between JSON, XML, and binary formats.
The capability surface extends to concurrent task execution via coroutines and thread pools, unified system call abstractions, and 2D graphics rendering. Additional functionality includes cryptographic hash generation, regular expression execution, fixed-point arithmetic, and memory pool management.
The toolkit also includes specialized tools for Objective-C method tracing on iOS and macOS, as well as a virtual machine capable of processing x86 script instructions.
Features
- Cross-Platform C Libraries - Provides a unified interface for system calls and threading to ensure portability across different operating systems.
- Platform-Specific Libc Replacements - Implements a lightweight, portable replacement for standard libc and libm with optimized memory and string functions.
- System Primitive Abstractions - Handles system-level tasks using cross-platform timers, atomic operations, mutexes, and thread pools.
- JSON and Data Serialization - Provides a comprehensive suite for parsing, generating, and transforming JSON, XML, and binary data formats.
- Standard Data Structures - Provides a set of standardized data structures and algorithms to reduce boilerplate code in C development.
- Standardized Data Containers - Provides a comprehensive set of standardized data containers including hash tables, vectors, and linked lists with iterator support.
- Network Traffic Management - Manages network traffic including DNS routing, SSL encryption, and HTTP request processing for IPv4 and IPv6.
- Lightweight - Ships a lightweight alternative to the standard C library optimized for minimal memory footprint and binary size.
- Low-Level System Operations - Manages memory pools and atomic operations for performance-critical tasks while bypassing standard library overhead.
- Portable System API Abstractions - Unifies platform-specific system calls into a single interface to ensure code portability across different operating systems.
- System Call Abstractions - Provides a toolkit for implementing coroutines, thread pools, and unified system calls for cross-platform compatibility.
- C Algorithm Libraries - Reduces boilerplate in C projects by providing standardized implementations of hash tables, vectors, and linked lists.
- C Runtime Utilities - Provides a set of developer-friendly helper functions and data structures for low-level C programming.
- Coroutine Implementations - Implements high-performance concurrent task execution using stackfull or stackless contexts across multiple CPU architectures.
- Concurrent Task Execution - Implements high-performance multitasking through the use of coroutines and thread pools.
- XML Parsing - Extracts data from XML documents using DOM, SAX, and XPath methods.
- Data Compression Algorithms - Implements standard compression algorithms to reduce file sizes and optimize storage space.
- Data Serialization Formats - Provides utilities for converting data structures to and from XML, JSON, binary, and plist formats.
- Data Stream Filters - Handles reading and writing data from files, sockets, and HTTP sources using filters for compression and encoding.
- Network Protocol Implementations - Implements network protocols for DNS routing, SSL encryption, and HTTP requests across IPv4 and IPv6.
- Fixed-Size Memory Pool Managers - Features optimized memory pool managers to prevent heap leaks and out-of-bounds access errors.
- Cross-Platform Text Processing - Handles character set conversions and parses XML, JSON, or regular expressions consistently across operating systems.
- Regular Expression Engines - Includes integrated regular expression engines supporting PCRE and POSIX standards for text matching and replacement.
- Cryptographic Hash Generation - Computes cryptographic checksums and identifiers using CRC32, MD5, and SHA1 algorithms.
- Fixed-Point Math Optimizations - Provides high-speed fixed-point arithmetic to perform calculations without the overhead of floating-point operations.
- Character Encoding Converters - Translates text between UTF-8, UTF-16, GBK, and other encodings in big or little endian modes.
- Frameworks - Multi-platform utility library with a focus on portability.
