Re: [boost] Serialiization Review repost with consistent quoting

From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (jbms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-25 22:18:39

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 20:39, Robert Ramey wrote:
> >As mentioned in previous posts, additional functions e.g. load_array  
> >and save_array need to be added to allow efficient serialization of large data sets.  

> why can't this be handled using
> 
> 	basic_oarchive::write_binary(void *p, size_t count)
> 

They are not the same at all.

The only array types for which in the general case that will result in a
portable archive are char and unsigned char.  It is only equivelent to a
write_array function if the archive is the same as the platform specific
binary archive.

In fact, write_binary probably should not exist in that form - the
parameter type should be changed to char const * or unsigned char const
*.  Note also the lack of const.