Re: [Boost-users] serialization & registration questions

From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-23 12:18:52

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:33:40 +0000, Jerry wrote:

> Robert,
> 
>> Note that results should be the same with all types of archives.  This
>> is a fundamental goal of the library.  So if you can make an example
>> which > fails with binary archive but passes with another one - that
>> would be of interest.
> 
> It is a header ordering issue.

Yep, this is outline in the doc that I linked you to earlier.

[snip]
> I now realise that <boost/serialization/export.hpp> now needs to follow
> any of the archive headers. The #include order determines which failure
> will occur - something that might be added to the comments in the code.
> Is there any way to detect this problem at compile /link time?

One thing I really like about the serialization library is that there are 
lots of asserts with lots of comments telling you what went wrong and how 
to fix it. Perhaps a gentle reminder about the header-order issue would 
have been appropriate.

The development version of Boost is supposed to have removed the need for 
header ordering but I think the kinks are still being worked out: 

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/172425

-- 
Sohail Somani
http://uint32t.blogspot.com