Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] Zero-sized arrays

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] Zero-sized arrays
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-06 17:14:45

Note that the library now supports serialization of pointers to classes
which have a new operator defined.  Wouldn't that do the trick?

Robert Ramey

Matthias Troyer wrote:
> I see your point. Here is one thing you could do: you could wrap your
> pointer in a special class and have the serialize function of that
> class do the allocation, loading of the object, and registration of
> the pointer for you. Would that work?
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
>
> On 4 Aug 2009, at 03:04, Roland Kaminski wrote:
>
>> I do not see how these could be used for this case.
>> load_construct_data
>> provides a pre-allocated pointer that can then be initialized. And
>> after
>> save_construct_data is called the pointer is already registered but
>> without
>> the additional size information. Do I miss something?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Roland
>>
>> On Tuesday 04 August 2009 02:38:01 Matthias Troyer wrote:
>>> On 3 Aug 2009, at 15:34, Roland Kaminski wrote:
>>>> The code is full of such "dangerous" optimizations but most of them
>>>> can be
>>>> somehow handled. It is optimized to be as cache-friendly as
>>>> possible that is
>>>> why I would like to not remove this one.
>>>> A hook during deserialization would be exactly what I need. I could
>>>> also
>>>> imagine other worarounds but all of them are very ugly.
>>>
>>> Look at this part of the documentation:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/serialization/doc/serialization.h
>>> tml#constructors
>>>
>>> and overload load_construct_data and save_construct_data for your
>>> type
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
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