[Boost-users] Serialization: how to port binary archives containing NAN created with version 1.43 to version 1.47?

Subject: [Boost-users] Serialization: how to port binary archives containing NAN created with version 1.43 to version 1.47?
From: Robert Lupton the Good (rhl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-21 10:36:56

>> Because of a user request we support serialization of nan and inf.
>> The official boost archives don't, as you already found out.
> Robert Ramey wrote:
> I just looked at the page.  It looks very interesting to me.  When
> I have some time, I will be investigating which of these might
> be included in the boost distribution of the serialization library.

Does this mean that you plan to support IEEE special values (e.g. NaN, Inf) in boost, or some other part of Christian's work?  There's traffic on the IEEE limitation (feature?) in boost::serialize dating back to at least 2005 --- some with your name on it!

                                R