Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Serialization] Deserialization of very small doubles

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-29 15:37:38

On Jul 29, 2008, at 7:27 AM, <Markus.Himmerich_at_[hidden]>  
<Markus.Himmerich_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I am using the Serialization library version 1.33 with MSVC 2003.  
> From the serialization of a class with an uninitialized double  
> member "a" I got the following XML:
>
> <a>1.0198947755763149e-312</a>
>
> When I deserialize this number I get a stream_error. Is this a bug?
>

By bug, you mean besides serializing an uninitialized object in the  
first place, right?  Don't answer; there's no guarantees about  
anything once you do something crazy like reading an uninitialized  
value, including no guarantee that the deserialization routine can do  
anything sensible with the input (i.e. garbage-in-garbage-out).

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Daryle Walker
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