Re: [Boost-users] Serialization with pointer to const object

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Serialization with pointer to const object
From: Soumen (soumen78_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-31 00:15:40

So finally to summarize it means that for now I cannot serialize pointers to
const obj. And I need to update my code to throw away the const. Is that
correct? 

Regards,
~ Soumen

Sohail Somani-2 wrote:
> 
> Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Robert Ramey<ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Robert Ramey<ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> would be equivalent to
>>>    ar >> *m_x
>>> in which case the "const" would be violated.
>> 
>> At the time the object needs to be instantiated and read, instead of
>> dealing with a T const * p as:
>> 
>> p=new T;
>> ar >> *p;
>> 
>> what's wrong with:
>> 
>> T * tmp=new T;
>> ar >> * tmp;
>> p=tmp;
> 
> This reminded me of the same issue with shared_ptr<const T>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3123
> 
> I'm not sure Robert is applying const correctness correctly here.
> 
> There is no "const violation" here. If there was, you'd see a const_cast
> in the patch somewhere.
> 
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