[boost] Re: [serialization] Archives for binary marshalling

From: Matthew Vogt (mvogt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-15 19:34:02

Matthias Troyer <troyer <at> itp.phys.ethz.ch> writes:

> That's great and will be really useful. You've saved me a lot of work! 

I hope so.  Do you have a project you can apply it to? It would be instructive
to know what your requirements are..

> I'll test this and will see how it needs to be extended. As far as I 
> can see at a first glance, string serialization in XDR is not 
> implemented yet?

Yes, a string is encoded as a byte sequence, prepended by a 32-bit length, and
padded out to the next 4-byte boundary.  std::wstring is not handled, however.

Matt