Re: [Boost-users] cross-platfrom binary serialization?

From: Ákos Maróy (akos_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-12 16:23:37

Roman,

> Even better, take a look at portable_binary_archive in
> the file vault: http://preview.tinyurl.com/5j46aq. It
> correctly handles floating point types as well as integer
> types.

I'm looking at the portable_binary_archive contents you pointed me to, 
and it seems to be a bit problematic. I see it was written by people 
mostly using MS Visual Studio (I guess from the #pragma once line), and 
it seems the code through a lot of warnings under gcc. a lot of signed / 
unsigned comparison warnings for example, or checking if an unsigned 
value is negative. (it also checks on the BOOST_VERSION macro without 
including boost/versio.hpp).

I wonder how stable this code is, and if it is really used among 
multiple systems. Are you actually using this code?

Akos