Re: [boost] Interest in simple unformatted binary stream I/O?

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in simple unformatted binary stream I/O?
From: Michael Caisse (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-25 02:01:40

On 04/24/2011 06:43 PM, Marsh Ray wrote:
> On 04/24/2011 07:12 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>
>
> > Is there interest in this for Boost?
>
> Rather than a machine and compiler-dependent binary IO facility based 
> on iostreams, I'd rather have a simple, minimal, portable binary 
> streaming interface that handled endianness and alignment well for 
> wire-representation defined structures.
>

I use Spirit Qi/Karma for this exact thing. When paired with Asio it can 
be a very convenient solution.

michael

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