Re: [boost] [serialization] non-tracking wrapper?

Subject: Re: [boost] [serialization] non-tracking wrapper?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-11 22:45:06

on Tue Nov 11 2008, "Robert Ramey" <ramey-AT-rrsd.com> wrote:

> when this first came up, it thought that it would be possible to do this.
> Now that I think about this, I don't see that its possible.
>
> The things that occur to me that could be done would be:
>
> a) include the hack of creating a temporary variable on the stack.
>
> My concern  this was that objects are tracked by address.  But
> if the type of the object is not tracked then there would be
> no problem.  So I would use BOOST_STATIC_ERROR(
> implementation_level<T><= object_serializable
> )
>
> b) the above could be included in an rval wrapper.
>
> c) the above could be included in the library itself.
>
> A way to temporarily "turn off" tracking hasn't occured to
> me yet.  I'm leaving aside the side effects that such
> a faclity might cause.

Thanks for your answer.  When I asked, it was much more important to me
that I find out what the current behavior was than it was to have a new
feature.  So, again, thanks.  I have what I need to do my job.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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