RE: [boost] Re: serialization of objects with overloaded new/delete

From: Andreas Brinck (Andreas.Brinck_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-07 03:08:57

Hi,

> For this to work, one needs a SFINAE compiler, right?

yes, perhaps the code could be modified to use the boost::enable_if utility to make it a bit clearer what's going on.

> I faintly remember that early versions of the documentation (during 
> review) described a completely different type of support for classes 
> with operator new. I don't recall the details but I believe 
> that one was 
> able to specialize a template for types with operator new. 
> While being 
> slightly more cumbersome, this sort of support would work 
> with virtually 
> any compiler, not just the ones that support SFINAE. It would be 
> interesting to hear why this kind of operator new support was 
> discontinued later.

I think you answered your own question. Judging from the lack of responses to my post, serializing objects with overloaded new doesn't seem to be important to most people.

I guess the maintainers of the library didn't want to complicate the interface to accomodate a small minority of users.

The SFINAE principle is probably the best way to handle it right now.

Regards

/Andreas Brinck
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