Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] Boost 1.33 serialization const problem

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-12 12:05:53

I've compiled and run your example on my VC 7.1 setup using the the version 
in the HEAD and it compiles and executes fine.  Your experiments suggest 
that it is a compiler dependent issue.  So I can't pinpoint anything.

However, I could offers some suggestions on your example which might or 
might not help.  Feel free to accept or reject them.

Your example looks correct to me.  But includes a number of behaviors which 
to me are a little non-obvious to me and I sort of distrust compilers to get 
it right when its not obvious to me.

a) I wouldn't have named a function string serialize(...).  I'm concerned 
about the compiler getting the overloading wrong. At the very least it makes 
the example harder to understand.

b) The following bit:

string serialize(const base * const b){