Re: [boost] [serialization] use of unsigned int instead of size_type

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-12 18:43:12

troy d. straszheim wrote:

>  template<class Archive, class OStream>
>  BOOST_ARCHIVE_OR_WARCHIVE_DECL(void)
>  basic_binary_oprimitive<Archive, OStream>::save(const char * s)
>  {
>      std::size_t l = std::strlen(s);
>      this->This()->save(l);
>      save_binary(s, l);
>  }
>
> One can fix this by implementing one's own portable binary primitives
> (which is what we've done), but that does involve duplicating a lot of
> library code in order to change a few lines.  The special type for
> collection size (if applied consistently) seems cleaner.

I'm curious as to what problem using std::size_t created.  That is,
why did you feel you had to change it.

Robert Raamey