Re: [Boost-users] Serialization creates huge object file

From: Zoltan Szatmary (szaki_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-31 07:29:02

Dear Robert,

please disregard my previous post. I solved the problem.

Sorry for the disturbance

Z

Zoltan Szatmary wrote:

> Dear Robert,
>
> I have been using the serialization lib for a while. I already wrote 
> some mail to this list as you might remember. I was quite satisfied 
> with its performance and ease of use, but now there is a problem I 
> cannot solve. I need to serialize/deserialize some 50 polymorphic 
> classes, so I do BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT them. I put all the serialization 
> related logic into one definition (.cpp) file. I only use two types of 
> archives, xml_iarchive and xml_oarchive. Now, when I compile the file 
> with Intel compiler v8.2 on an Itanium based machine and with debug 
> info the result is a huge (>42MB) object file, which ld (the linker) 
> simply refuses to link. I am quite sure that the size of the object 
> file is the problem. I tried to separate the xml_iarchive related code 
> to one .cpp file and the xml_oarchive related code to an another, but 
> of course this means that export.hpp is included to both, which 
> results in multiple definitions error when trying to link the two 
> object files together. Could you suggest any solution?
>
> Thank you very much in advance
>
> Zoltan Szatmary
>
>