Reproduced the crash with binary serialization.<br>
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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.<br>
#0  0x08082c1f in boost::archive::detail::basic_oarchive_impl::save_pointer ()<br>
#1  0x08081f16 in boost::archive::detail::basic_oarchive::save_pointer ()<br>
#2  0x08076ad8 in
boost::archive::detail::save_pointer_type&lt;boost::archive::binary_oarchive,
RepeatBase*&gt;::polymorphic&lt;RepeatBase&gt;::save (ar=@0xbfd58428,
t=@0x80bbd38) at
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_39_0/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp:408<br>
#3  0x08076b04 in
boost::archive::detail::save_pointer_type&lt;boost::archive::binary_oarchive,
RepeatBase*&gt;::save&lt;RepeatBase&gt; (ar=@0xbfd58428, t=@0x80bbd38)
at
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_39_0/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp:428<br>
#4  0x08076b6c in
boost::archive::detail::save_pointer_type&lt;boost::archive::binary_oarchive,
RepeatBase*&gt;::invoke (ar=@0xbfd58428, t=0x80bbd38) at
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_39_0/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp:457<br>
#5  0x08076b98 in
boost::archive::save&lt;boost::archive::binary_oarchive,
RepeatBase*&gt; (ar=@0xbfd58428, t=@0x80b9738) at
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_39_0/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp:506<br>
#6  0x08076bcc in
boost::archive::detail::common_oarchive&lt;boost::archive::binary_oarchive&gt;::save_override&lt;RepeatBase*
const&gt; (this=0xbfd58428, t=@0x80b9738) at
/var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_39_0/boost/archive/detail/common_oarchive.hpp:64<br>
#7  0x08076bfd in
boost::archive::basic_binary_oarchive&lt;boost::archive::binary_oarchive&gt;::save_override&lt;RepeatBase*&gt;
(this=0xbfd58428,  <br>
....<br>
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In doing this I have noted.<br>
   o creating small trivial cases seemed to work.<br>
   o when I combined the test case files to a single file, it worked <br>
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In trying to create the test case I figured out what caused the crash,<br>
Basically I had included text archive in all the compilation units<br>
but the binary archive _only_ in the file where I was outputting to<br>
the disk. When I included the binary archive in _all_ the compilation<br>
units that were being serialized, the test worked.<br>
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I am not sure how common this case is, but gcc compiler/linker gave no warnings <br>
Maybe this need to be added as a gotcha in the documentation?<br clear="all">
<br>   Best regards,<br>Ta,<br>    Avi<br><br> 
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