[Boost-users] [Serialization] Pure binary archive available?

From: Chris . (g18c_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-02 12:54:24

Hi, the serialization library is almost what im after. My only problem is 
that in the archive output additional data is added to the start of the 
archive (for example "22 serialization::archive" for text files). Is there 
any way of disabling this? In my case, I require a pure binary archive. 
Ideally i would like to write one if one doesnt exist but i'm not sure if i 
have time, depending on how hard it would be.

How hard would it be do make my own archive type, where by i could set the 
endian field to convert bigendian to littleendian depending on what the user 
defines the 'archive endianess' to be on archive construction? I have done 
this with my own serialization library, however i dont want to extend that 
because it only handles c++ primitives and dealing with pointers things 
start
getting horrible very very quickly!

Thanks in advance.

Chris

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