Re: [Boost-users] 1.33 pointer to object serialization

From: Chris Coleman (cqc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-19 14:05:24

Ok,

I've sice found some information on Object Tracking that suggests the

Chris Coleman wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm having trouble with serializing an object through a pointer to it.
>
>The code below works in 1.32, but in 1.33 it gives the errors below.  I 
>am using Mac OS X 10.4.2, gcc 4.0.
>
>I've had a look at the headers, but my template programming isn't good 
>enough to make too much sense of them.  It seems that there is a check 
>to ensure T is not a pointer on line 549 of oserializer.hpp, which is 
>the reason the static assert is failing?
>
>Is it correct that objects shouldn't be serializable by pointers to 
>them, or not?
>
>Cheers
>Chris
>
>
>gps_position* p_g = new gps_position(35, 59, 24.567f);   
>oa << p_g;  // causes the error's below
>
>
>g++ -o test test.cpp -lboost_serialization-d-1_33
>/usr/local/include/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp: In function 
>'void boost::archive::save(Archive&, T&) [with Archive = 
>boost::archive::text_oarchive, T = gps_position*]':
>/usr/local/include/boost/archive/basic_text_oarchive.hpp:78:   
>instantiated from 'void 
>boost::archive::basic_text_oarchive<Archive>::save_override(T&, int) 
>[with T = gps_position*, Archive = boost::archive::text_oarchive]'
>/usr/local/include/boost/archive/detail/interface_oarchive.hpp:85:   
>instantiated from 'Archive& 
>boost::archive::detail::interface_oarchive<Archive>::operator<<(T&) 
>[with T = gps_position*, Archive = boost::archive::text_oarchive]'
>hash_test.cpp:130:   instantiated from here
>/usr/local/include/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp:560: error: 
>invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 
>'boost::STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE<false>'
>
>
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