[Boost-users] [serialization] bad alloc and deserialization

From: Cyril (cyril.delmas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-05 08:38:44

Hello all,
I have some trouble using boost::serialization : this code

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try { 
        std::stringstream erroneousStream;
        erroneousStream << "not a message ! @@@";
        boost::archive::text_iarchive input(erroneousStream);
        Message* deserializedMessage;
        input >> deserializedMessage; // failure
} catch (boost::archive::archive_exception& e){
        std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
} catch (std::exception& e) {
        std::cerr << e.what () << std::endl;   
} catch(...) {
        failmsg("unexpected !");
}
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fails with a bad alloc exception. I don't think this is a normal 
behavior. So, what can I do to make this code fail correctly (with an 
archive_exception or even better with a serialization_exception) ? I 
must precise that in a normal scenario (with a real serialized message, 
this works perfectly well ! Any other idea ?

Tanks in advance for you answers.