[Boost-users] [serialization] platform independence (32 & 64bit windows)

Subject: [Boost-users] [serialization] platform independence (32 & 64bit windows)
From: आशीष वर्मन् (ashish.varman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-17 12:07:31

Hi

We are using boost serialization our product which was 32bit only till 
now.  Now we have started building it on 64bit as well.  On finding that 
boost::binary_archive is not platform independent, we seem to have 2 
options:

     1. Use text_archive - (but are worried about performance since the 
serialized data is approx 500MB even after gzip compression)

     2. Use the eos portable archive - (but it is updated only till 
boost 1.49.  We are using 1.53)

So my questions are:

     1. One (and only one) of our archives created by our 32 bit 
executable is successfully read in by the 64 bit executable while the 
rest throw exception on reading the archive signature.  If the platform 
is encoded in the signature, why is that one archive being read in 
successfully.

     2.  Which of the above two approaches would be better and why.

Thanks in advance.

Yours Sincerely
Ashish Varman