[boost] Support for reading/writing binary 'streams' (asio?)

From: Olaf van der Spek (olafvdspek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-28 07:26:00

Hi,

When reading/writing binary streams, you often need to read/write an
(unaligned) integer in big, little or native endian. Is there support
for this in Boost?
I think iostreams isn't usable as 'zero-copy' is required.

What do other Boost developers/users use/recommend?
Wouldn't this make a nice additional to the new asio library?

Olaf