Re: [boost] How do folks test serialization code?

Subject: Re: [boost] How do folks test serialization code?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-05 12:23:48

John Maddock wrote:
>>> But since I know the internals of the classes are platform specific,
>>> I've had to come up with a serialization format (for cpp_int for
>>> example) which is platform independent.  Or at least I think it is.
>>> I
>>
>> I am interested in learning more about how this format for cpp_int
>> is. I maintain an encoding format [1], which I would like to extend
>> with variable-length integers.
>
> I've just committed the code so you can try for yourself, but
> basically rather than storing a sequence of "limbs" (which may vary
> in size from one platform/compiler to another), it stores a sequence
> of bytes instead.  The bytes are extracted using high level
> operations (shifts and bitmasks) so there's no issue with endianness
> etc.

As I said before - this shouldn't be necessary.

>
> That's what I hope anyway ;-)
>
> John.
>
>
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