Re: [boost] [serialization] Cross-compiled binary archive

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-10 12:12:20

That's the obvious place.

I don't think anything is dependent upon pointer size - as pointers 
themselves are not stored.

I suspect the problem will be when using integers - I would expect the sizes 
of these to change when moving to 64 bit platforms. After all size_t is an 
integer.  If it were me I would just forget it.  The best would be to just 
convert the binary archives into portable binary archives or something else. 
That is, if you want portability - don't use binary archive which optimized 
for speed.

Robert Ramey

Zrubavel Zodikovich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to make a modified version of binary archive so that it can
> read
> data serialized on a different platform. Specifically, I have a lot of
> files written with binary serializer on x86, and now I need to read
> them
> into application built on x64 platform ( sizeof(size_t) == 8 ).
>
> Obvious place to fix would be the load() functions in
> boost\archive\impl\basic_binary_iprimitive.ipp, replacing the
> std::size_t declaration with unsigned int.
>
> Are there less obvious places in the archive format that are dependent
> on the pointer size ?
>
> Thanks
>
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