Re: [Boost-users] [serialization]

From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-13 14:37:32

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:26:49AM -0800, Robert Ramey wrote:
> 
> I don't know what the standard library is supposed to do.  But
> the fact is that at least some implementations of he standard
> library are not handling text i/o symetically in at least two cases:
> 
> uninitialized bools.
> floating/double NaN, +/- inf, etc.
> 

We hit this problem early on.  We're serializing things where NaN is
overloaded to mean both NaN and "uninitialized", and where +/- inf are
perfectly valid values.  We often need to serialize structures between
runs that contain sections that haven't been initialized.  A couple of
our platforms have exactly this bug.

I'll dig up my changes and send them to you.  IIRC they were three or
four lines each.

-t