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

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-28 15:09:46

Johan Råde wrote:

> 1 is inefficient when moving data between little-endian platforms
> 2 is inefficient when moving data between big-endian platforms
> So 3 should be most efficient. Is there an easy way of storing an
> endianness-flag in an archive?

The version currently in the package does that now for integer types.

Note, you could store floating points as a pair of integers using
the facilties already in portable binary archive. This would have
the side benefit of making the archives signifcantly smaller.

Robert Ramey