Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] DLL woes

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-06 14:16:03

Anders Wang Kristensen wrote:
> Thanks for taking time to answer this.
>
> The situation you describe is exactly what I have and what is causing
> the assert.
> X is implemented in its own DLL including its serialize function,
> which is in the cpp file and explicitly instantized with the xml
> archive.
>
> In A and B have their own DLLs and call X::serialize as part of their
> own serialization.
> Serializing one works, but both fails.
>
> Are you saying this should work?

I'm saying I would expect that to work.  If it doesn't I would be
curious to learn more about the specific case.

I should say when I wrote the library, I didn't really consider
the problem of code in DLLs being loaded/unloaded on the fly.

This can create a problem as we have a registry to keep track
of pointers to certain code addresses.   I have made some
adjustments to address this in 1.35 - but really haven't set
up a way to exhaustively test them.

The same can be said for making the serialization library
truely threadsafe.

Robert Ramey