Hello,
I am a newbie of boost and I want to use it. I would like to serialize a list. The list is defined with the following data type:

typedef struct person {
    char *name;
        char *first_name;
    struct person *next;
} person;

person *list_person;

I'd suggest reorganizing your struct into struct person { std::string first_name; } and useing std::list<person> list. Then serializing and other operations would probably be trivial.

But this does not answer your question if you can't change struct person. Can you?

HTH,

Kris