Good STL-like library for C

Question

What are good libraries for C with datastructures like vectors, deques, stacks, hashmaps, treemaps, sets, etc.? Plain C, please, and platform-independent.

user_199 · Answer

The Glib library used on the Gnome project may also be some use. Moreover it is pretty well tested.

IBM developer works has a good tutorial on its use: Manage C data using the GLib collections

Stu_414 · Answer

As always, Google is your friend:

http://nixbit.com/cat/programming/libraries/c-generic-library/

specifically:

http://nixbit.com/cat/programming/libraries/generic-data-structures-library/

jmah_3948 · Answer

There's some stuff in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) that I'd expect to be very solid.

user_128722 · Answer

Maybe http://sglib.sourceforge.net/ if you want an easy to use, very fast, macro based library.

Good STL-like library for C

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