Re: [Boost-users] [serialization / shared_ptr] Problem to serializeashared_ptr

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-31 18:41:36

Ruediger Berlich wrote:

> How can I teach the library that this particular shared_ptr just
> holds a basic type ?
>
>> Looking at you code, I can see you're trying to serialize a shared
>> pointer to an integer.  addresses of prmitive types (int) are by
>> default not tracked as doing so would end up tracking ALL the ints
>> serialized which is not what most people would expect.  if you want
>> to do this you'll have to wrap the int in a class so its type can be
>> distuished and it can then be tracked.  Then I believe that
>> serializing a pointer to your wrapped class will function as you
>> hope and expect.

The issue tracking.  We turn off tracking for prmitive types because
it would be "too much".

If yo want to override this for a particular case, make a small class/struct
which holds and int and serialize a shared pointer to that.

Robert Ramey