Libcutils provides a self-contained set of fundamental routines which are
essential to basically any Unix utility or daemon application written in C. The
library provides fundamental data structures such as lists, hash-maps, strings
and parsing functions for JSON or the typical dot-file based configuration data.
The following list summarizes the currently supported functionality:
* length delimited instead of NULL terminated strings
* memory management based on reference counting
* several list processing functions like iterators and map-reduce
* support of [Ideal Hash Tries](http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64398/files/idealhashtrees.pdf)
for highly efficient hash map data structures
* parsers for [JSON](http://json.org) data and the text configuration files found
in Unix system
* doubly linked circular lists for reliable event queues
* support for test and debugging of memory management problems such as memory leaks
Tpl makes it easy to serialize your C data using just a handful of API functions. The data is stored in its native binary form for maximum efficiency. C, Perl and XML supported. Data is portable across CPU types and OS's from Unix to Mac to Windows.