Re: [Boost-users] Does boost have something to support binary datastreams?

From: me22 (me22.ca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-10 14:59:04

On 2/10/07, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > On 2/9/07, Michael Marcin <mmarcin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >> I commonly need to write and read binary data from files.
> >> The streams in the standard library are very tedious to use for such
> >> tasks. I'd like to be able to construct a stream thats loads a
> >> little endian binary data file and use it to write/read data with
> >> the insertion/extraction operators on big endian or little endian
> >> systems.
> >>
> Hmmm - sounds to me like you want the serialization library.
>
In my recollection, the binary archives in Boost.Serialization don't
handle type size differences or endianness.