Re: [Boost-users] boost serialization stream error question

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost serialization stream error question
From: OvermindDL1 (overminddl1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-31 19:53:22

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> The problem is caused by double values less than DBL_MIN.
>> Apparently, streaming such values in causes the input stream fail_bit
>> to be set, which causes the serialization lib to throw an exception.
>
> The standard stream library writes out NaN values as text, but cannot read
> them.
>
> It shows up in various places besides the serialization library - e.g.
> lexical_cast.
>
> Work has been done on this. Â I believe that there is code in vault which
> deals with this.

Why not just memcpy the double into the stream? (or bitcast it to long
long or so?)