Re: [Boost-users] Serialization creates huge object file

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-31 10:40:21

have you tried building in release mode?  Of if you must run in
debug mode - exclude the debug symbols - or ?  I don't see
this is something that can be addressed from the serialization
system - what does intel say?

Robert Ramey

Zoltan Szatmary wrote:
> Dear Robert,
>
> I have been using the serialization lib for a while. I already wrote
> some mail to this list as you might remember. I was quite satisfied
> with its performance and ease of use, but now there is a problem I
> cannot solve. I need to serialize/deserialize some 50 polymorphic
> classes, so I do BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT them. I put all the serialization
> related logic into one definition (.cpp) file. I only use two types
> of archives, xml_iarchive and xml_oarchive. Now, when I compile the
> file with Intel compiler v8.2 on an Itanium based machine and with
> debug info the result is a huge (>42MB) object file, which ld (the
> linker) simply refuses to link. I am quite sure that the size of the
> object file is the problem. I tried to separate the xml_iarchive
> related code to one .cpp file and the xml_oarchive related code to an
> another, but of course this means that export.hpp is included to
> both, which results in multiple definitions error when trying to link
> the two object files together. Could you suggest any solution?
>
> Thank you very much in advance
>
> Zoltan Szatmary