Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] class versioning changes in boost 1.42

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] class versioning changes in boost 1.42
From: Jarl Lindrud (jlindrud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-28 23:39:13

Robert Ramey <ramey <at> rrsd.com> writes:

> 
> Hmmm - This change - changing unsigned int to std::size_t - doesn't
> seem to be an error to me.  binary archives are be definition across
> platforms.  That is a binary archive created on a 32 bit machine
> cannot be read on a 64 bit machine.  Since std::size_t is the same
> size as unsigned int on all platforms, I don't think this should ever
> create an error.
> 

64 bit Visual C++ has size_t as 64 bits, and unsigned int as 32 bits ...