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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Serialization with pointer to const object
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-31 03:08:24

The question is under consideration.  It won't be resolved for a while.  And 
such resolution might or might not mean a change.  To get over the hump, you 
might want to
just use a const_cast.

Robert Ramey

Soumen wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Sohail Somani
>> http://uint32t.blogspot.com
>>
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