Re: [Boost-users] boost::serialization doesn't support iterators?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-11 00:16:27

'Carlo Wood' wrote:
> I looked for hours in the docs, because I couldn't believe
> that a serialization library that supports deep copying of
> pointers and STL containers wouldn't even MENTION iterators
> (after all, iterators are the pointers of the STL).

lol - believe it !!

> However, it seems that boost::serialization simply does not
> support serializing iterators! Is this true?

True.

> I really need to serialize iterators, how can I do that?

I don't think it would be all that tough - but it would require
fairly intimat knowledge of how the standard containers
and iterators work.  Feel free to do it.

Good Luck

Robert Ramey