RE: [boost] Serialization Review Results

From: Karl Millar (KMillar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-10 13:34:08

Peter Dimov wrote:
[snip]
>From: "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]>
>>      Two areas that spring to mind are pointer comparisons outside a
>>      single array for unserializing internal object pointers, and the
>>      use of type_info::name() for type identification.
>
>Using type_info::name() means that when you recompile your program with
>another compiler, or a newer version of the same compiler, it might no
>longer be able to read its files.

A name demangler would fix this problem, at least for the platforms where we
can supply a demangler.

Of course that would require writing demanglers for a whole bunch of
compilers, which is its own problem.