Re: [Boost-users] Boost Serialization & cross platform operability.

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-02 17:45:03

It is stated in the documentation that native binary archives cannot be 
expected to be portable accross machine architectures.  text (and xml) based 
archives should be portabable without problem.

Robert Ramey

"John Spicer" <jspicer_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:C73E689C9FCF884B9A550ECFADA0721C087762_at_exchange.cab-cds.org...
Has anyone had any luck getting a serialized object (created using boost 
binary serialization) between two different platforms? I am currently using 
binary serialization on 32 bit & 64 bit machines without issue. However, 
passing the serialized objects between the two platform types fail. The 
serialized classes themselves support interoperability, and as such it 
appears that the serialization libraries themselves do not. I am assuming 
they are storing some type of meta data along with the payload?

Any thoughts on how to do this and keep with binary serialization?

****
There is an example of a "portable" binary archive in the documentation and 
examples.  This particular example doesn't implement serialization of 
floating points.  You could finish that example if you wanted.

-- John

_______________________________________________
Boost-users mailing list
Boost-users_at_[hidden]
http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users