>The official designation of that folder according to the libstdc++ documentation is: > >"Files included by standard headers and by other files in the bits directory" >Where "bits" probably just means something trivial as "the bits that make up the implementation of >what you include via the standard headers".
>For example, if you include the standard <algorithm> header, you really include bits/c++config.h, >bits/stl_relops.h, bits/stl_pair.h bits/stl_algobase.h and bits/stl_algo.h under the hood, each of >which defines the odd bits that alltogether give you what someone including <algorithm> would >expect to get.
Boost calls the conceptually same folder "detail".