Re: [boost] binary_iostreams library

From: Michael Marcin (mike_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-23 13:18:06

Ares Lagae wrote:
> I have developed a small library for binary I/O, called binary_iostreams,
> and I am using it in several of my own projects. I was wondering if there
> is interest for such a binary_iostreams library?
> 
> The binary_iostreams is a small library, very similar to the iostreams
> library. Compared to iostreams, the unformatted I/O operators remain, and
> the formatted I/O operators now do binary I/O. This makes the
> binary_iostreams library easy to use for anyone acquainted with the
> iostreams library. The binary_iostreams library allows to set the
> endianness of the output stream. Together with <cstdint>, this allows for
> portable binary I/O, although binary_iostreams does not claim to be a full
> blown serialization library.
> 
> 
> Direct link to a motivating example:
> http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~ares/binary_iostreams/test.cpp
> 
> The library:
> http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~ares/binary_iostreams/binary_iostreams-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> The documentation:
> http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~ares/binary_iostreams/doc/html
> 

I have had to re-roll something like this on almost every project I've 
worked on.  I'll definitely take a look.

Thanks,

Michael Marcin