Re: [Boost-users] boost::serialization - portable_binary_oarchive -What are the first 2 bytes?

From: Pfligersdorffer, Christian (Christian.Pfligersdorffer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-21 02:56:40

j.c. wrote:

>     std::stringstream ss_out;
>     // These are either 2 x 8 byte integers or 1 x 16 byte
> integer, prob the later. Are they signed or unsigned, etc???    
>     ss_out << ss.str()[0]; ss_out << ss.str()[1];

Good morning,

I suspect it to be the serialization library version. It's the same
information the native binary_oarchive generates when called with the
no_header flag.

Christian