Re: [Boost-users] Boost binary serialization & AMD64

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-16 12:21:56

The system includes text and xml archives which are portable.

Also included are native binary archives which are not portable accross 
platforms.

There is an example of a portable binary archive.  It is incomplete in that 
doesn't include code for floating point number.  Another difficulty in 
making a good implementation of this is the lack of portable method of 
detecting and re-creating different kinds of nan's

So you're in new territory here.

Good Luck

Robert Ramey

Leon Mergen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 18:12 -0800, Robert Ramey wrote:
>> There might be differences in size of certain types like std::size_t
>> or others.
>
> Ok, and I assume if I would want to make the x86 data files readable
> on an amd64 architecture, I would have to write my own conversion
> utility, or simply start switching over to textual storage ?
>
> As in, there's no such thing provided by Boost.org ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Leon Mergen