[boost] [serialization] Archives for binary marshalling

From: mvogt_at_[hidden]
Date: 2004-04-14 21:57:48

For anyone interested in extending Robert Ramey's serialization library 
with
derived archive types, the attached archives may be interesting.

Included are an archive template for ordered binary marshalling output 
(big-
or little-endian), and rudimentary specialisations for CDR and XDR 
formats.

These aren't really new archives, since they derive from Robert's 
basic_binary
archive classes, but they do demonstrate to some extent what needs to be
done to modify the archive output.

Issues I've had in extending the archives:
 - The difference between overriding 'save', 'save_override', 'vsave' and
   operator<< is not immediately obvious...
 - Controlling access to individual save/load overloads still has me 
stumped
 - There's something weird with initializing wchar_t's going on...

Questions or comments welcome.

Matt

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