Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] char[] and double

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-25 13:27:20

Larry Smith wrote:

> I don't understand why the lib should care about the
> data alignment of the struct's (packed versus unpacked).

The library doesn't; your compiler does, and it's wrong in this case. 
char[8] requires no padding or alignment, so it should bind to char(&)[8] in 
either mode. You might be able to use a reinterpret_cast to silence the 
compiler.