Re: [boost] [serialization] string serialization

Subject: Re: [boost] [serialization] string serialization
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-04 15:03:55

The current portable_binary_archive handles mismatched
sizeof all types of integers.  If the loading platform can't
render the integer saved, an exception is thrown at runtime.

Nikolay Mladenov wrote:

>> If you buy that, then you still need to construct a
>> portable_binary_archive and handle container_size_type consistently
>> across architectures (e.g. convert to uint64_t before/after
>> storing/loading, checking for overflow on platforms where the
>> in-memory container_size_type is smaller than the on-disk
>> container_size_type). Then the difference is only that one currently
>> requires an extra override for std::string.
>
> As far as I can tell this is already done by the binary_archives.
>
> Nikolay
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