Re: [boost] Serialization Library Review

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-25 20:22:59

Date: 25 Nov 2002 00:03:08 -0500
From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms_at_[hidden]>

>> Hmmm - what I don't understand is how this would be different that calling
>> 
>> void basic_oarchive::write_array(void* p, size_t count)
>> 
>> Incidently, this would work for any kind of archive - not just the
>> binary ones.

>B>ut then the serialized data becomes platform specific.  A platform with
>a different endian-ness or a different double size or a different double
f>ormat could not load the data.

>- Jeremy

if one uses 

ar << t

where t is a C array, each item is serialized individually.

I believe the original question was how would "power users"
override the item by item virtual function call just blast
all the data to the output archive.  For such a purpose

ar.write_binary(t, sizeof(t))

should do nicely.

Robert Ramey