On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:55 AM, elizabeta petreska <elizabeta.petreska@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everybody
This is my first post to the list.
Can I serialize C++ function pointer ? I search around and found that it could not be done ( although I am not sure ).
If it can not be done, whats the explanation about it ?

Thanks

The binary being recompiled
Any function pointers to functions in shared libraries could be invalidated
On some obscure platforms, this could still fail, even with the same binary that doesn't load any shared libraries

So, it could possibly work, but I would highly recommend that you don't do this.

Other options:

- Wrap your functions in classes, and use the standard serialization methods for class objects.

- Have a function in your binary that registers all of the function pointers (a std::map would suffice) that you care about at startup, perhaps indexed by a string. Then, serialize the names of the functions that you want to save.

Can you describe your use case in more detail?

Jeremy