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

From: Roman Perepelitsa (roman.perepelitsa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-25 02:44:02

2008/8/24 Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]>

> > Under boost_1_36_0\libs\serialization\example there are some hpp and
> > cpp files for portable binary format (portable_binary_archive.hpp,
> > portable_binary_iarchive.cpp ...) and I am wondering how performant
> > the code is.
>
> This was actually tested on various platforms of different 32/64 endian
> combinations.  And the test consisted of running ALL serialization
> tests as is done with the "official" archive implementations.  To me,
> the main proble is that its missing support for floating point types.
> Including such support in a definitive, portable manner would
> be a significant effort which so far no one has deigned to undertake.
>

But portable binary archive in the boost vault portably supports
floating points, doesn't it? Can it be merged with the version
that is provided by official serialization library?

Roman Perepelitsa.