[boost] Re: serialization: automatic undo/redo

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-03 13:27:39

Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote
>
>>Also, as long as you're going to save the unmodified data before
>>beginning an operation, you might as well use the undo data for
>>exception recovery.  In that case, you probably want a system for
>>restoring the data which can't throw an exception.  Deserialization is
>>unlikely to fit the bill.
>
> The serialization package under discussion only throws an
> exception if the archive has been corrupted some way.  

Can't de-serialization run out of memory as it dynamically allocates
stored objects?

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Dave Abrahams
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