Re: [boost] (unknown)

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-28 16:52:24

On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 09:25  PM, Rainer Deyke wrote:

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> From: "rameysb" <ramey_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:20 AM
> Subject: [boost] (unknown)
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>> b) implementation of archives in terms of istream/ostream. no
>> registered objections.
>
> I'm actually not really happy with this, but in the absence of binary
> streams I am unable to offer a better alternative.

I could show an alternative, one that we have been using
in production code since 1994.

>
>> c) binary format archive
>>    issues - here is a summary of the binary/text archive issue
>>    i)  binary data is fundementally non-portable
>
> This is fundamentally untrue.  Ones and zeros are as portable as it
> gets, and can be used across all locales and character sets.

yes, it only depends on which binary format to use.