Re: [boost] binary_iostreams library

From: Shams (shams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-26 22:32:38

Hi,

I have had a look at the example...

Questions:
1. Apart from handling endianess what is really different from iostreams 
opened in binary mode?
2. Is/can the endianness BOM (byte order mark) written to the file 
automatically?

Thanks
Shams

-- 
"Ares Lagae" <ares.lagae_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:f31613$i4g$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
>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
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Ares Lagae
> Computer Graphics Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
> http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~ares/
>
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