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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] Zero-sized arrays
From: Roland Kaminski (kaminski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-07 03:24:45

That is exactly what I am trying to avoid because this would force me to 
reinvent all the nice features that are already implemented in the library (to 
store pointers only once, to automatically store the right type).

Regards, 
Roland

On Thursday 06 August 2009 19:25:42 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/serializatio
> >>n.h tml#constructors
> >>
> >> and overload load_construct_data and save_construct_data for your
> >> type
> >>
> >> Matthias
> >>
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