Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.MPI] question about serializingcustomobject

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.MPI] question about serializingcustomobject
From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-15 21:09:28

On 30 Aug 2010, at 13:36, Cristobal Navarro wrote:

> i found the problem, and found a solution, but would be better if i learn some explanations of you guys which know much more.
> 
> problem was that i was sending the pointer of my object
> {
> Lattice* lat = new Lattice("filename");
> world.send(1, 1, lat);
> }
> that generated the errors on the packing algorithms i suppose (correct me if im wrong)
> 
> so instead of changing all my program i only sent the object pointed
> 
> world.send(1, 1, *lat );
> 
> and on the receiver process i receive it with
> 
> Lattice lat;
> world.recv(0, 1, lat);
> 
> then i can transform it to pointer again to keep my algorithms unchanged,
> 
> Lattice plat = ⪫
> 
> 
> 
> i wonder, is this a good approach to solve the error i was having?? at least does work and i can continue programming, which makes me happy :)

Hi, this problem should be fixed now on the trunk and in the forthcoming 1.45 release

Matthias