[Boost-users] [serialization] Binary archive headers?

Subject: [Boost-users] [serialization] Binary archive headers?
From: Robert Dailey (rcdailey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-25 19:03:58

Hi,
I'm looking at the streambuf filled with data after I do this:

  boost::asio::streambuf buf;
  std::ostream stream( &buf );
  boost::archive::binary_oarchive archive( stream );
  archive << "Hello World";

And I see that there's a lot of binary data that preceeds the "Hello World"
data. Looks like custom header information that boost::serialization inserts
into the stream. Is there a way to prevent any automatic header information
from being inserted into the archive's stream? I'm using this serialized
buffer to communicate with a device over a COM port and I can't have this
extra information in my buffer.

Thanks.

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Robert Dailey