Re: [Boost-users] Calculating needed space for Boost.Serialization

From: Ioannis Papadopoulos (ipapadop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-23 01:30:54

Ioannis Papadopoulos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to calculate exactly how much space it is needed to serialize a 
> number of objects. What I'm thinking is another class that implements 
> the Saving Archive concept and only invokes sizeof() rather than 
> actually writing anything.
> 
>  From what I understand I should overload the << and & operators for 
> this class to call save() or serialize() on the object, unless it is a 
> POD (in which case the size is already known).
> 
> Has this been done before?
> 
> Thanks

Please ignore this - it was left in my outbox and sent by accident after 
I already had posted a relevant question.